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Graeme Edge, drummer and co-founder of the Moody Blues, died on Novermber 11, 2021, at the age of 80. Described by frontman Justin Hayward as “one of the great characters of the music business,” [...]

Commander Cody, alias pianist and vocalist George Frayne, died September 26, 2021, at age 77, after a long battle with esophageal cancer. The crazy Commander was a fixture on the American music [...]

Paddy Moloney, the leprechaun-like founder and indefatigable guiding spirit of the Chieftains—the world’s most popular exponents of traditional Irish music—died October 12, 2021, at the age of [...]

Mollie O’Brien, a nationally venerated interpretive singer of folk, blues and R&B, has issued acclaimed albums with her brother, Tim O’Brien, and her husband, guitarist Rich Moore, and equally [...]

Singer-songwriter Esmé Patterson is a former member of Paper Bird, an indie folk band that started as sidewalk buskers, performing its joyful blend of roots, folk and indie pop on the streets of [...]

Rick Nelson was the first teen idol to use television as a way to promote records. In 1948, he joined his parents’ radio show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, which moved to television in [...]

Lee “Scratch” Perry, one of the most influential forces of Jamaican music, died at the age of 85 on August 29, 2021.