An Albany, N.Y., zoning board didn’t overstep by blocking electronic dance music parties at the Washington Avenue Armory arena, according to a recent court ruling.

British Summer Time festival has snagged Elton John as its latest headliner. In addition to the crocodile rocker and his band, former-Kinks frontman Ray Davies and Elvis Costello will also take the stage for full sets July 12.

The annual funfest that bundles rock ’n’ roll with classic cars returns for its 19th year with Social Distortion, Face To Face, Murder By Death, Old 97’s, Nashville Pussy and more.  Pre-sale begins today and the general onsale launches later this week.

Goldenvoice's Elliott Lefko interviewed the famed keyboardist at the 2011 Pollstar Live! conference: “Jim Morrison and I went to the UCLA film school. We were students in the motion picture division. He came from Florida, I came from Chicago. We smoked pot together, we talked philosophy together."

The Red Rocker embarks on a late-summer journey celebrating his incredible catalog.  Playing in the band on select dates for Sammy Hagar on his “Four Decades Of Rock” will be his Van Halen/Chickenfoot cohort Michael Anthony and Montrose vets Denny Carmassi and Bill Church.

Russia’s point man on Syria and on its relations with the U.S. on Tuesday turned his attention toward a subject close to Russian hearts – alleged vote theft at the Eurovision Song Contest. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called it an “outrageous incident.”

Keith says he grew up in the area near Oklahoma City that was hit by a devastating tornado.  Keith says he remembers riding his bicycle through the stricken neighborhoods. Rescuers are still working to pull people from the rubble in the community that’s southwest of Oklahoma City.

Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs March 28 when Justin Bieber failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in Munich. He had until midnight Friday to produce those documents.

Michael Jackson’s doctor was not the only person working on the singer’s ill-fated “This Is It” tour without a fully executed contract, a corporate attorney for concert promoter AEG Live LLC testified Monday.

Drake’s OVO Fest isn’t the only North American stop on James Blake’s upcoming 2013 itinerary. In addition to the Aug. 4 festival appearance in Toronto, the English electronic producer and singer/songwriter has added two dozen gigs in the U.S. and Canada.

The site of 1967’s Monterey Pop Festival and the long-running Monterey Jazz Festival is hosting a new event in August with a lineup featuring Modest Mouse, Passion Pit, MGMT, Neko Case, Beach House, Toro Y Moi and Devendra Banhart.

The Grammy-winning rock band from Pennsylvania will appear on the third day of the Stars & Stripes Festival, joining Collective Soul, Cake, Randy Travis and Puddle Of Mudd for Michigan’s largest free music fest.

Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died. He was 74.  Manzarek died Monday at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family, according to his publicist.

Peter Hook doesn’t want to rejoin New Order’s lineup, but that doesn’t mean he’s not going to keep playing the band’s music. In September Hook and his group The Light will showcase New Order’s first two albums in their entirety on a U.S./Canada tour.

There’s a new frontman for Stone Temple Pilots – Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington.  “Chester has a one-of-a-kind voice that we’ve admired for a long time,” STP guitarist Dean DeLeo said. “We know Linkin Park will always be his priority, but we thought it would be cool to try something together."