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Alex Kapranos was detained by Russian police, who suspected him of being a spy. The rocker was traveling under his real last name, Huntley, which he just happened to share with an MI6 agent who stole secrets from the country in the early ‘90s. Alex was freed when he pointed out the 13-year age difference between him and the spy. And that’s what happened today in rock history. Photo: Getty

Sinéad OConnor Has A New Memoir ... And No Regrets By Allyson McCabe | NPR Sinead OConnor performs at August Hall in San Francisco, Calif., in February 2020. Tim Mosenfelder / Getty Images Sinéad OConnor rose to fame in 1990 with a multi-platinum selling album. Two years later, a controversial TV appearance on Saturday Night Live threatened to derail her career. Since then OConnors struggles have often played out in the public eye. But with , a newly published memoir...

Image credit: Tim Mosenfelder Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker — say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. Sinéad O’Connor rose to fame in 1990 with a multi-platinum selling album. Two years later, a controversial TV appearance on Saturday Night Live threatened to derail her career. Since then O’Connor’s struggles have often played out in the public eye. But with , a newly pub...

★★★★☆He was an archetypal leather-clad rocker with an inexhaustible appetite for “chicks”. Yet Phil Lynott was a gifted songwriter too. He might have become as familiar a figure today as that other

Earlier this month we published readers’ memories of High Wycombe’s iconic Nag’s Head pub and music venue.

On new album Battle Lessons, the former Black Star Riders, Alice Cooper and Thin Lizzy guitarist is a true force of nature

Call Me Cruella , by a band I love -- Florence and the Machines. Yet hearing a song with “Cruella” in the title made me wonder why we didn’t hear Pink Floyd’s “Goodbye Cruel World” or Nick Lowe’s “Cruel To Be Kind”, or Elvis (or Cheap Trick’s much cheaper to get the rights to version) “Don’t Be Cruel.” Speaking of covers, it was awesome to hear Tina Turner’s covers of “Whole Lotta Love” and “Come Together.” I highly recommend you seek out her mid-70s album �...

Clubs and venues are ramping up in-person shows again, but the long-delayed pandemic relief promised to hard-hit operators hasn't materialized yet.

Biggest New (Movie) DVD Releases for the Week Chaos Walking- Daisy Ridley, Tom Holland, Nick Jonas Long Weeken...

LOS ANGELES — One day last March as the pandemic was ravaging the world and nightlife was shutting down, Howard Mordoh, 70, looked at his empty calendar and started freaking