Lindsey Buckingham updates fans on where Fleetwood Mac stands with a long-awaited new album featuring the ‘Rumours’-era lineup.

Jimmy Barnes is, off these shores anyway, a stone-cold legend — and an all-star cast including Joe Bonamassa, Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain gives him his due here.

Kiss’ Gene Simmons says these competitions are “really all a fantasy.” Leave it to a middle-edged man in makeup to fix that.

‘The New Basement Tapes’ finally live up to their dizzying promise with Rhiannon Giddens’ darkly contoured reading of “Spanish Mary.”

You got to come on, man, and take a piece of Mr. Nathan Parker Smith’s band.

Adrian Belew is readying his FLUX music app, even as preparations continue for a major North American tour with his Power Trio.

Emerson Lake and Palmer ended up a quest to gain permission from the original composer of this stand-out track from 1973’s ‘Brain Salad Surgery.’

John Butcher in remarkable in that he plays differently in different places, constantly trying different sounds and new ideas.

‘Queen Forever’ gave Brian May an opportunity to hear all four of the band’s original members playing together again.

Amanda Kravat crafts a billowing dream of what could be — for herself, and for this song.