“Rockabilly Red” wine is going to be available soon (February-March). YOu can find the details at www.leerocker.com soon!

Lee Rocker’s Rockabilly Red is a fine full bodied Napa wine that Lee himself has been involved in the entire process (especially the drinking part)....

Ace Cafe London has teamed up with the organisers of Europe's best Freestyle Motorcross Show, The Masters of Dirt, with pair of tickets up for grabs for the Wednesday 14th March show at London's Wembley Arena.

Masters of Dirt comes to Wembley armed with the best Freestyle Motorcross (FMX), Mountain Bike, BMX, Minibikes, Quad and Snowmobile riders along with the super-hot Fuel Girls and...

We have very sad week left behind. Three legends from jazz, Rhythm and Blues and Rockabilly passed away.

On Wednesday (18 January) award-winning songwriter and rockabilly legend' Al Urban died at age 76.

On Tuesday (January 19) pioneering rhythm-and-blues singer, songwriter, drummer, bandleader and disc jockey Johnny Otis died in Los Angeles. He was 90 years old.

Today (20 January) Etta James,...

Twin sons of Ricky Nelson, Matthew and Gunnar, are on a dedication tour called "Ricky Nelson Remembered," which will be at the Reif Center on Friday, Jan. 20.

Coming from such a famous family, Matthew and Gunnar wanted a name for themselves. Incidentally, they succeeded, and in 1990 after their song "(Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection" hit number one in the US, the...

RIPSAW announces that its recording artist, chanteuse Marti Brom will perform at the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio as part of a tribute to the late 1950's rockabilly singer Janis Martim. The show will be held in the Hall's Foster Room on Wednesday, January 25th.

Known for riveting onstage delivery of an original and classic songbook grounded in the...

The Dodge Brothers have been announced as one of the special event headliners at this year’s Bradford International Film Festival in Partnership with Virgin Media, which runs from 19 - 29 April.

They will be joined on stage by one of the world’s best known silent-film accompanists, Neil Brand, to provide a live soundtrack for the classic silent film Beggars of Life (1928).

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We just got news that today Jerry Lee Lewis got into the hospital because short of breath.

Unfortunatelly we don't know how serious situation is, but we hope that he will be back to the stage very soon.

Breathless - must stay his greatest song, not to be a health problem... ...

There are two shows are coming for Lil' Esther Benefit in the Netherlands: on 10 and 18 February, 2012. For bands and venues check our events calender!

And here some words from the orginisers - Rick en Sjoukje:

"Two years ago Lil Esther had breast cancer. With chemotherapy they could get the cancer out of Esther’s breast, luckily, but the operation has damaged her...

Good morning, Rockabilly Bash fans and friends!

Happy New Year to you all! I hope 2012 brings you lots of nice parties and good music!

We have a couple of news. The one is that we decided to stop with Rockabilly Bash Festival for some reasons. Even though we had an azmazing time and a lot of fun for three years, let's say...

The World famous chimpanzee died last Sunday (Dec. 24) of kidney failure. She was 80.

Cheetah appeared in the Hollywood Tarzan films starring U.S Olympic champion swimmer Johnny Weissmuller beginning in 1932, according to Debbie Cobb, the sanctuary's outreach director.

The chimp was outgoing, enjoyed making people laugh, was a fan of finger painting and appeared to be "in tune to human feelings," Cobb...

Jerry Leiber (songwriter of famous song such as "Hound Dog", "Jailhouse Rock", "Stand By Me", etc) died on August 22 in Los Angeles from cardio-pulmonary failure.

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller met in Los Angeles in 1950, where Stoller was a freshman at Los Angeles City College while Leiber was a senior at Fairfax High. After school, Stoller played piano and Leiber worked in a...

Chris Kennedy, writer and musician from New York a couple of years ago discovered the lost, never before published color photo collection of popular 1950s Cleveland radio deejay Tommy Edwards.

The collection consists of over 1,700 Ektachrome slides of practically everyone who passed through his radio station from 1955-60. Elvis, Chuck Berry, country music superstars, Hollywood celebrities and hopeful unknowns.

So now you...

Austin rockabilly bandleader Chadd Thomas (real name Charles Thomas II) of Chadd Thomas and the Crazy Kings was found dead Monday morning, 11 of July, on South Congress Avenue near Oltorf.

The Austin American-Statesman and KVUE are both reporting at first that the Travis County Medical Examiner has ruled Thomas' death a homicide from blunt force trauma.

Although homicide detectives are involved, Austin police...

Yesterday Robin Johnson, the guitar player of Swedesh rock'n'roll band - Go Getters, died in motorcycle accident.

Our thougths are with his family and friends. RIP...

Bobby Poe, a former rock 'n' roll musician who became an influential music insider and manager, died Jan. 22 at the age of 77. According to Variety, Poe died of a blood clot in Vinita, Okla., the small town where he was born.

After performing with a number of rockabilly musicians, including Big Al Downing, during his youth, Poe rose to fame in the '50s...

For the first time worldwide Gina Haley, the highly talented daughter of Bill Haley, will be on an international tour presenting both some of her father’s songs and her own fresh recorded rockabilly CD. The “league of fame” is topped of with the appearances of Bill Turner, Bill Haley’s well known original lead guitarist in the seventies, and Original Comets’ steel guitarist Pete Davenport.

Having...

Lee will join the cast of the smash Broadway hit "Million Dollar Quartet" as bassist Jay Perkins in a twelve-show run from Jan 21-31, 2011.

MDQ is inspired by the legendary recording sessions at Sun Record Studios with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and additional session musicians. Rocker is set to play Carl Perkins' brother and bass player Jay Perkins....

Merry Chrismas and, full of good rockabilly music, New Year! We wish you interesting events, joy and happiness in the coming 2011 Year!!! /Rockabilly Bash crew/...

We would like to say our great thanks to the model for our 2nd Rockabilly Bash Festival poster and flyers!! She is really great! You can find the poster here. And maybe you have already seen flyers of our festival :) So, her name is Olga and she is from pinup-girls.ru - group of people who love rockabilly, fifties and pin-up culture. They...

Here is the scedule for Rockabilly Bash.

21.00 - DJ Thomas
22.00 - Lost Hound
22.45 - DJ Chicken
23.15 - Jack Baymoore and the Bandits
00.00 - DJ Thomas
00.30 - Charlie Thompson and the Barnstompers
01.15 till 2.00 - DJ Chicken

And sure our wonderful Rockabilly Bash phatographer and also poster model will be there too!!

See you soon!
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