In support of Ukraine, David Gilmour teamed up with Nick Mason to record Hey Hey Rise Up with Ukrainian rocker Andriy Khlyvnyuk, front man for the Ukrainian band Boombox (there is also an American band of the same name) who were on tour when the war broke out. He headed back to his country to defend it and released a video of him singing The Red ( Read more... )

Epic Games, makers of the Unreal Game engine - a very impressive property - and of the Fortnite game, a very popular game, have bought the extremely popular music site Bandcamp ( Read more... )

Things are heating up for streaming service Spotify. Last week, Neil Young asked that his label, Columbia, pull his music from their platform. Young says that it is quite a financial hit as Spotify represents 60% of his streaming income, at the same time he says that Spotify is also the lowest resolution of his streaming music, something that he ( Read more... )

Some bands and I were jamming, I knew the bands but I didn't know the people who were hanging around dancing. No big deal, it's just that if I know the people, I can expect certain behaviors. And there was a person or two whose behavior was rude, it led to lag in the game. Eventually they either stopped what they were doing or left, I don't ( Read more... )

I have a band in the game, I can muster eight players. I have my main paid account, plus seven free-to-play accounts, which exist only to provide me with additional musicians. I can run all eight copies of the game on my 32 gig Asus gaming laptop. If I want, I can also run one of my wife's accounts for nine. And I'm planning on bringing that ( Read more... )

He revealed recently that he's been privately fighting it for three years, and his doctors have pronounced him clear for several months. This is his second brush with cancer. Rod is now 74 years old and was awarded his Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2007 New Years Honors, in 2016 he received his Knights Bachelor ( Read more... )

Wow. Rough week for '70s/'80s rockers. Eddie Money died last week, he announced last month he had oesophageal cancer. Three decades of three packs a day can do that to you ( Read more... )

Made when they were developing the album OK Computer, their frontman was hacked and the contents of 18 minidiscs was stolen. Rather than pay a ransom of $150,000 to return the recordings, Radiohead is releasing them to anybody via Bandcamp and all the proceeds are going to the climate activists Extinction Rebellion ( Read more... )

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Nick is the drummer for Floyd, and talks about the relationship between him, Roger Waters, and David Gilmour. Nick's on good terms with both of them, but it's unlikely the other two will either work well together again. Roger doesn't like David because Roger thinks Floyd should've folded when he left in '85 and thinks writing triumphs over all, ( Read more... )