Jamal Edwards—the British entrepreneur, DJ, and founder of SBTV who was awarded an MBE in 2014 for his services to music—has died, BBC News reports. His company confirmed the news to the BBC. His cause of death is unknown. He was 31. Edwards, born in Luton and raised in Acton, began SBTV as a YouTube…
Dallas Good, best known as the singer and guitarist for Canadian rock band the Sadies, has died, Exclaim! and Rolling Stone report. According to the band’s U.S. label, Yep Roc, Good died “of natural causes while under doctor’s care for a coronary illness discovered earlier this week.” He was 48 years old. Find Yep Roc’s…
Snacks, Bethany Cosentino’s pet cat and the album artwork star of Best Coast’s debut album Crazy For You, has died. “Said goodbye to my best friend in the entire world today,” tweeted Cosentino. “My true love. My guardian angel. There will never be another one like him.” “I always knew this day would come, but…
Tom Smith, co-founder of the experimental noise ensemble To Live and Shave in L.A., has died. Smith’s partner, Claudia Franke, confirmed to NPR that he died on Thursday (January 20) from colon cancer. He was 65. Smith and Frank “Rat Bastard” Falestra established To Live and Shave in L.A. in Miami Beach, Florida, in 1990….
Calvin Simon, a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic, died on Thursday, report bandmates George Clinton and Bootsy Collins. “We lost another original member of Parliament/Funkadelic. A friend, bandmate & a cool classic guy, Mr. Calvin Simon was a former member of Parliament/Funkadelic,” Collins wrote in a statement on Instagram. “Rest in peace to my P-Funk brother…
Stephen Sondheim, the composer and lyricist widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in musical theater history, has died, according to The New York Times. Sondheim was 91 years old. Born and raised in New York, Stephen Sondheim was mentored at a young age by Oscar Hammerstein. Following college, he started his career…
A nine-year-old boy who was injured in a crowd crush at Astroworld on November 6 has died, his family tells ABC13. Ezra Blount had been in a coma on life support after being trampled in a crowd crush during Travis Scott’s headlining set. He is now the 10th victim to lose their life at the…
Bharti Shahani has died after being injured at the 2021 Astroworld Festival, The Associated Press and KTRK report. James Lassiter, an attorney for Shahani and her family, said the young woman died last night, according to the reports. Bharti Shahani was 22 years old and a senior at Texas A&M University, where she was studying…
Andy Barker, longtime member of Manchester electronic music group 808 State, has died. The band confirmed the news on social media, saying he died “after a short period of illness” on Saturday. “His family and friends asks that people respect their privacy at this time but remember him for the joy he brought through his…
Ronnie Tutt, who played drums in Elvis Presley’s TCB Band, has died, as Rolling Stone and TMZ report. Elvis Presley Enterprises posted the news to the official Graceland website yesterday (October 16), stating that they were “deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Ronnie Tutt.” The post continued: “In addition to being a legendary…
Third Power bassist, singer, and songwriter Jem Targal has died, his family confirmed. He was 74. Targal was born in 1947 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After a brief stint in Istanbul (where his father taught at American College), his family eventually settled in Detroit, where he learned to play the violin and guitar. He attended…
