Jack White answered Charley Crockett’s callout with the full lyrics to a 1984 John Wayne parody rap. Crockett fired back within hours. Here is how a dropped opening slot became one of the strangest arguments in music this summer.

Frank Beard, the famously clean-shaven drummer who powered ZZ Top for more than five decades, has died at 77 in hospice care at his Texas ranch. Billy Gibbons says the band will keep going, as Frank wished.

In a new Harper’s Bazaar cover profile, Céline Dion details the 17 years of stiff-person syndrome symptoms that went unnamed, the days she needed Valium to function, and the training regimen behind her Paris residency this September.

Hundreds gathered outside Swansea Minster as Bonnie Tyler was laid to rest. Inside, the talent scout who discovered her in a local club paid tribute — and friends remembered the woman behind one of rock’s most recognizable voices.

Contra-ICE, the collective behind the 15,000 ICE OUT towels handed out at Super Bowl LX, has assembled a 47-track benefit compilation featuring Tom Morello, Jello Biafra, Fishbone and Beastie Boy Ad-Rock. It lands October 2.