Gary Shider, one of the best-known members of George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic and musical director of the P-Funk All-Stars for much of their history, died on June 16 at age 56 due to complications from brain and lung cancer. Shider inducted into… more »

Editor’s Note:  BFMN UK Senior Staffer, Moonshayde Saunders, brought you exclusive photos of every band who performed during the free concert at Finsbury Park, London on 6 June 2010. We’ve set up separate pages in the BareFoot FotoBlog for… more »

Went to see Heart perform at Harrah’s Rincon and got our socks knocked clean off (those of us who indulge in wearing them)! Ann and Nancy Wilson thrilled their very loyal and responsive fans with past favorites and a few songs off their upcoming… more »

Fourteen more bands have recently been added to the three-day Download Festival line-up, June 11-13. Some of these acts will be playing on the brand new Jägermeister acoustic stage – bringing the total of stages to five. This has got to be one of the… more »

Tony Bennett once said, “The bottom line of any country in the world is ‘What did we contribute to the world?’ … We contributed Louis Armstrong.” As if we had anything to do with it, contribute we did. We liked him,… more »

You read our story about their fantastic concert at Wembley Arena, and saw the exclusive photos by our Moonshayde. Throughout their 37-year career, KISS has sold 80 million albums, played in front of millions of people and become an integral part of… more »

Urbandale police say 38-year-old Paul Dedrick Gray, the bassist for the Grammy-winning Iowa metal band Slipknot, has been found dead in a suburban Des Moines Town Plaza Hotel room by a hotel employee. Foul play wasn’t suspected and the Polk County… more »