Bass player Francis Buchholz from the 1980s hard-rock band The Scorpions has died at 71 following a private battle with cancer.

On Friday, Jan. 23, the family of former Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz confirmed his death in a Facebook post. He was 71.

Fans of The Afghan Whigs might not be legion, but they are discriminating and devoted. Now, these music lovers have an extra ...

The planned tour would have celebrated four decades since the 1986 release of the band’s debut album, “Look What the Cat Dragged In.” The group last performed together during The Stadium Tour in ...

The overall sound of this blues-tinged rock act has been influenced in a manner that suggests the Rolling Stones meets T-Rex, infused with some hair metal. The band, which included the classic lineup ...

Age is just a number when you're a rock star! "There's a saying in the music business: You don't retire from it, it retires you," Gary Rossington, the founding guitarist of Lynyrd Skynyrd, said in ...

This concert was reviewed Jan. 2 at the Big Dipper in downtown Spokane. Last Friday, the Big Dipper brought a raw and honest night from various local musicians and musical styles. The night began with ...

The 1970s was a decade of massive commercial peaks where bands could sell millions of records without ever achieving the 'cool' status required for long-term critical immortality. While groups like ...

More than 30 years later, saying that you saw the heavily mythologised Kyuss “back in the day” gives you street cred in this scene that cannot be purchased or transacted through any other band. I am ...

Some bands are easy to love. Others? Not so much. The ones that divide opinion tend to have qualities that inspire both devotion and derision: soaring choruses that some hear as anthemic, others as ...

Mother Nature had her say and disrupted the 125th annual Mummers Parade in 2026. Officials say high winds blew around the bands' props on Thursday. The Philadelphia Mummers Parade said the String Band ...