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Mojo Nixon, the unpredictable rock and roller behind the 1987 MTV-favorite novelty song “Elvis Is Everywhere,” died Wednesday. He was 66. According to a statement on his Facebook page, Nixon, whose real name was Neill Kirby McMillan Jr, died after suffering a “cardiac event” during an Outlaw Country Cruise on which he was a performer. “How you live is how you should die,” the Facebook post reads. “Mojo Nixon was full-tilt, wide-open rock hard, root hog, corner on two wheels + on fire… Passing…

Margaret Glaspy was 17 miles into the race when she entered the pain cave. It was always a question of when, not if, she would experience it. Her body was already jetlagged when she started, thanks to an international flight two days before. Tropical Storm Ophelia had been pummeling her with wind and rain throughout the entire race. (The message on the race’s website seems almost sadistic in hindsight: “Hopefully we are going to have a nice fall day!”) The course, which blended technical single-track trails,…

Amazon's Gaming Week sale has all sorts of sweet deals for gamers --and if you're in the market for something comfortable to park your butt on while you frag, you've gotta check out this huge deal on a high-tech gamer rocking chair, the X Rocker Trident.The X Rocker Trident has a lot more going on than a regular chair, and you can pick one up right now for just $142--that's 57% off its normal retail price for $330.X Rocker TridentOn top of being an ergonomic rocker, the Trident has two speakers…

Watch the hair! And the knees! Queen guitarist Brian May returned to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday to be knighted by King Charles III and officially join the order of the British Empire. As if the founding member of the legendary rock band wasn’t music royalty already.Although the announcement of the knighthood was made at the end of last year, the investiture ceremony only took place this week at Buckingham Palace. The 75-year-old rocker received the nominal honorific alongside fellow musician YolanDa Brown, who…

Review Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History By Bill JanovitzHachette, 592 pages, $31If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. A selective list of Leon Russell’s collaborators reads like a roll call of rock divinity: Jerry Lee Lewis, the Beach Boys, Ike and Tina Turner, the Rolling Stones, Joe Cocker, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Elton John. His debut album, released in 1970,…

There are several design elements that have been mostly static on the iPhone for years, even as the phone has grown in size and the display has evolved. One such element is the volume rocker, which still consists of two pill-shaped buttons on the left side of the device. That might change this fall, as recent rumors suggest that the iPhone 15 Pro will feature a single volume button similar to what we saw on the original iPhone (but with some technological upgrades). Daniel Rotar, who runs the ZONEofTECH channel…

More than half a century into his career, Iggy Pop now takes many forms. To most he remains the proto-punk showman who used to roll around in broken glass or crowd-surf covered in peanut butter. His early records with the Stooges on the 1960s/70s cusp remain some of the most influential in the canon – documents of devil-may-care nihilism that provided a scuzzy counterweight to the era of peace and love. Others immortalise Iggy in the 70s alongside his buddies David Bowie and Lou Reed, a triad of exalted…

Paulie Stewart was 48 years old and had been on the waiting list for a liver transplant for more than 500 days when, at death’s door, he was visited in Melbourne’s Austin hospital by Sister Helena, a young nun from Timor-Leste sent to comfort him on his journey to the other side. A priest had already read him his last rites.Stewart, singer of Melbourne punk band Painters and Dockers and Australian East Timorese reggae ensemble the Dili Allstars, thought Helena’s appearance must have been an omen. His association with…

Toyah Willcox, singer/songwriterI was a cult punk singer playing sweaty little clubs and getting covered in so much gob that dry cleaners would go: “Yeuch! We’re not touching that!” Then a brilliant PR woman called Judy Totton turned everything around. She put me in every parish magazine in the country that would talk to me. I soon had all these fans who said they discovered me because their parents or grandparents had told them about this punk rocker.I was making singles that were eight minutes long with reams of lyrics…

The Canadian rock legend Randy Bachman’s long search has come to an end with him being reunited in Tokyo with a cherished guitar 45 years after it was stolen from a Toronto hotel.“My girlfriend is right there,” said Bachman, 78, a former member of the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, as the Gretsch guitar on which he wrote American Woman and other hits was handed to him by a Japanese musician who had bought it at a Tokyo store in 2014 without knowing its history.He said all guitars were special, but the orange 1957…