Steven Avery, the subject of the Netflix docu-series Making a Murderer, was denied a new trial for the murder of Teresa Halbach due to insufficient evidence, ABC reports. Avery was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide in Halbach’s 2005 death and is currently serving life in prison. Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, Judge …

Tom Petty, the dynamic and iconoclastic frontman who led the band the Heartbreakers, died Monday. He was 66.Petty’s death was confirmed by Tony Dimitriades, longtime manager of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, on behalf of the family. “On behalf of the Tom Petty family, we are devastated to announce the …

Just a half hour before doors open for Harry Styles‘ first show of his debut solo tour, San Francisco’s Masonic is completely empty. Band and crew members are buzzing backstage, including Styles himself, not yet wearing the snazzy Gucci suit he would be seen sporting onstage just hours later. Outside, …

Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson reunited on the latter’s “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down” for the 2016 tribute concert, The Life and Songs of Kris Kristofferson: All Star Concert Celebration. The show will be released as a concert album and film October 27th. CMT will air the full show that same …

When Charles Bradley, the “Screaming Eagle of Soul,” died last week of cancer at the age of 68, the music world lost one of its most sincere voices and exuberant live performers. Gabriel Roth, whose label Daptone Records released all of Bradley’s music, had first seen the singer as Black …

As a close friend and collaborator of fellow Chicagoans Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa, Kevin “Knox Fortune” Rhomberg is used to ceding the spotlight. But even he has his limits. “I remember I was at Umami Burger with Vic a year ago,” Rhomberg recalls while eating a sushi lunch …

If you want Gene Simmons to come to your house, all you have to do is buy his new ten CD box set The Vault and he’ll bring it right to you. You can even invite over up to 25 friends. He’ll spend two hours at your place and maybe …

Finding a good dive bar band is a little like finding a good dive bar: There are plenty of imitators out there, but you know the real deal when you find it. Texas trio Midland knows a thing or two about dive bars – in fact, they just might be …

“Hold on a minute, the little doggy’s about to run away,” Robert Plant says as he puts the phone down at his home in England, on the Welsh border. After a vacation in Morocco, Plant sounds antsy as he prepares to release his new album, Carry Fire. He recorded it …

Bob Dylan’s Born Again Christian period of 1979 to 1981 – an intense, wildly controversial time that produced three albums and some of the most compelling and confrontational concerts of his long career – will be chronicled on the next chapter of Dylan’s ongoing Bootleg Series. Trouble No More – …