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LONDON (Reuters) - Britpop band Blur will receive an Outstanding Contribution to Music award at next year's BRITs, Britain's answer to the Grammys.

The indie quartet, who released their first album "Leisure" in 1991 and are best known for the 1994 No. 1 album "Parklife," will be honored at the February 21 ceremony in London.

"It's great ...

The Stone Roses, one of the seminal bands to emerge from the Manchester indie rock scene in the 1980s, said Tuesday they were reuniting and announced concert dates for next year.

Band members led by singer Ian Brown had long denied they intended to get back together after splitting in 1996 amid rows and legal wrangles.

But they have put ...

Mikey Welsh, the former bassist for the American rock band Weezer, has died in Chicago of a suspected overdose, authorities said Sunday. He was 40.

Welsh, who played with the alternative rock group from 1998 to 2001 before leaving the band and starting a second career as a painter, was found unconscious in his hotel room on Saturday.

Weezer said ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Mikey Welsh, the former bass player for the alternative rock band Weezer, was found dead in a Chicago hotel, a police spokeswoman said on Sunday.

Workers at the Rafaello Hotel found Welsh unresponsive and not breathing when they went to his room on Saturday afternoon after he failed to check out as scheduled, spokeswoman Laura Kubiak said.

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Twenty years ago, a naked baby diving after a dollar bill turned the rock world upside down, and Nirvana's "Nevermind", the record immortalised by that image, became the soundtrack for a generation.

"Nevermind"'s release in late September 1991 also sucked Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain into a whirlwind that he would not get out of alive.

Two decades on ...

After 31 years and 15 albums, the pioneering American alternative rock group R.E.M. has announced that it will be no more.

The group, whose hits included "Shiny Happy People" and "Everybody Hurts," were a cult band on the US college rock circuit before hitting the mainstream in the early 1990s.

"To our Fans and Friends: As R.E ...

Dave Grohl and his Foo Fighters band mates on Friday counter protested the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, which had targeted the band's Kansas City show at the Sprint Center.

“You have no proper thoughts of the God that created you, but we ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Cameron Crowe's documentary "Pearl Jam Twenty" takes viewers on a 20-year behind-the-scenes journey with a band that has reached the top of the rock 'n' roll pantheon while refusing to embrace the spotlight.

"It's more than just a rock documentary," Academy Award winner Crowe said of the film he pieced together from over 1,200 hours ...

Activist rock stars including Lady Gaga and U2's The Edge and Bono will give a concert next month celebrating global aid work by former US president Bill Clinton since he left the White House, organizers announced Tuesday.

The music fest, including an acoustic performance by the U2 stars, will take place at the Hollywood Bowl on October 15 under ...

American rock band Kings of Leon have asked their fans to forgive them after they abruptly ended a concert in Dallas, acknowledging the group is suffering from internal stresses.

"Kings of Leon regretfully announce the postponement of tonight's show in Houston," the band said in a statement on Friday.

Leader singer Caleb Followill quit the stage after just four ...