Last year, we premiered the video for “Lisbet Cries,” a single from Durham, NC-based band The Pinkerton Raid. Since then, the band have been releasing a string of new singles, most recently returning ...

“My first [friend] was Graham Beard—my best friend (though I was perhaps not his best) from the age of 4 until about 11, when we went to watch Bill Haley play, and I picked up a guitar,” said ...

Fred Marsden, the drummer in the Merseybeat band Gerry and the Pacemakers, has died at age 66, his family said. Marsden died of cancer Saturday in Southport, England. The band, fronted by Marsden’s ...

The final (identifiably) Merseybeat bands to debut on the charts were The Escorts, with “The One to Cry” in July 1964, The Undertakers, with “Just a Little Bit" in April 1964, and The Mojos, with ...

The Searchers are making their Glastonbury Festival debut. The Merseybeat band was formed by Mike Pender and John McNally in 1957. Known as the "longest-running band in pop history", the Liverpool ...

The Searchers have made their Glastonbury Festival debut in what will be the Merseybeat band's "final show ever" after 68 years of performing. Bassist Frank Allen said the four-piece, which formed in ...

Buyers saw a mast head saying “What’s On In Merseyside”. The front cover had a picture of Gene Vincent taken when he was in Liverpool alongside trails for forthcoming orchestral and theatrical ...

"A big voice of music has gone from Liverpool. A rare player, recognisable from just his sound" ...