(FROM BILLBOARD) – Fleetwood Mac singer/guitarist Lindsay Buckingham told Billboard the band was surprised by recent claims made by Sheryl Crow that she and the group ”definitely have plans for collaborating in the future.” Crow, who is friends with Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks, would presumably fill in for Christie McVie, who retired from the [...]

  Look what the cops dragged in. Rikki Rockett, the 46-year-old drummer of ’80s hair-metal purveyor Poison, was taken into custody on a rape warrant as he arrived Monday at Los Angeles International Airport on a flight back from New Zealand. The musician, whose real name is Richard Ream, was nabbed while going through customs [...]

Rocker Eddie Money is going country with a little help from his friends. Money is working on an album featuring “countrified” versions of some of his early hits and country star Vince Gill is singing background vocals. Money, 58, hasn’t released an album of new music since 1999. Last year he released an album of [...]

  Curt Smith has been one half of Tears For Fears, a radio show personality, MTV host and commercial songwriter. In May, when Smith releases “Halfway, pleased,” you can add solo artist to that list. The Bath, England, native tells Billboard.com that now, at the age of 46, he has “come back to total self-indulgence” [...]

His biggest hit ever was The Never Ending Story, and ironically enough, it was nearly the end to his story. After selling four million copies of the single, the artiste known as Limahl just about disappeared from the face of music-dom, no thanks to some unfortunate management by his then record label. It was indeed [...]

Calvin Hayes from “Johnny Hates Jazz” remembers the 80s… “IT’S very refreshing to see that the climate has changed,” says Calvin Hayes. “People now seem very interested in 1980s music. Many bands are even reforming.” Hayes, along with Mike Nocito and Danny Saxon, make up the Johnny Hates Jazz trio which will perform at Genting’s [...]

Cabbage Patch Kids and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were two of the biggest selling toys of the 80s- VH1 said it best, we love the ’80s. Even though most of us were too young to remember any first hand details, we still feel a bit of nostalgia for the decade that made neon colors, shoulder [...]

   Younger fans of contemporary guitar music may not know this, but rock music actually used to be fun. Before Nirvana and Korn ushered in an extended golden age of alternately mopey and angry disenfranchisement, exiling rambunctious irresponsibility to the lands of punk and pop-country, hard rock was an altogether flashier and more carefree affair. [...]

The 80s are coming back with a vengeance as long forgotten, seminal science fiction properties get snapped up for revisiting. We’ve already told you about upcoming sequels to movies like The Last Starfighter and Tron , but what about 80s ass kicking? Could the decade’s harder edged action movies make it in a modern, watered [...]

IF ANYONE has ever doubted the pulling power of Bryan Adams’ iconic song Summer of ’69, then they should have witnessed a music experiment at Boardwalk Tavern, on the Gold Coast, last week. Adams may have sold 60 million records in the past 27 years but I decided to test whether his music was still popular [...]