Yo Ho, WeRCatz here! We're taking a little retrospective on the song "Jugband Blues" performed by Pink Floyd and written by co-founder Syd Barret. This would be his only written and last work for Floyd's second album A Saucerful of Secrets released in the summer of...

This past week the hip-hop community has lost one of beloved rappers and songwriters, Earl Simmons, at the age of 50 and if you don't know who he is, then you may know him better for his other name, Dark Man X or DMX. DMX came into the hip hop scene back in the early...

Yo Ho, WeRCatz here. On March 8, 2021, a clown died after battling spinal cancer. His name was Cepillin. Born Ricardo Gonzalez Gutierrez and hailing from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Cepillin was first a dentist. Because children were very scared of the dentist for obvious...

Yo Ho, WeRCatz here. We have recently lost a legend in reggae: Bunny Wailer. Original member and fellow founder of The Wailers, he formed the band with Peter Tosh and Bob Marley in 1963. The Wailers sound was influenced and styled by gospel music and Curtis Mayfield...

The Seattle-based duo Charlatan, who had been on a roll earlier in the year before COVID-19, has announced the release date for their upcoming full-length album "Lip Server". "Lip Server" will be released next month on November 7 and for this special event, they will...

On December 8, 1980, John Lennon was exiting his residence at the Dakota Apartments with his wife Yoko Ono. When they separated and he was going back inside, Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman; Lennon died on arrival at Roosevelt Hospital at age 40. Lennon...

WeRCatz here. On October 6, we lost one of the most influential guitarists in rock history: Eddie Van Halen. He was 65 and his cause of death was due to lung cancer. Eddie was classically trained to be a classical piano player with his brother Alex Van Halen. Against...