Ella Karsai

Tony Richards, the original drummer of American heavy metal band W.A.S.P. and a key contributor to their self-titled 1984 debut album, has died aged 69. Frontman Blackie Lawless announced Richards’ death through the band’s official social media on Wednesday, 11 November, remembering a musician whose departure had changed W.A.S.P. in ways the group never fully recovered from.

Fall Out Boy have found another way to make fans work for new music, reportedly handing out VHS tapes containing an unreleased video at their surprise Los Angeles mall show. The band performed at Koreatown Plaza on Tuesday, 10 November, where some attendees received tapes featuring a previously unheard track identified as ‘Doomsday Generation’, according to Kerrang!.

Henry Rollins spent years trying to find a permanent home for his punk archive. Last weekend, he opened part of it to the public for just two days, and more than 4,000 people came through the doors. The former Black Flag frontman confirmed the turnout in a 10 November account of Cool Evidence: Captured Moments From the Last Century, held at Nashville’s RADAR615 gallery on 6 and 7 November.