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• Further Seems Forever Singer Jon Bunch's Death Ruled a Suicide

  Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 7:15 a.m.

  On February 1, 2016, Jon Bunch, former lead singer of Pompano Beach emo band Further Seems Forever, was found dead in Irvine, California at the age of 45. After months of waiting, the cause of death has been ruled a suicide. Bunch first found fame as the frontman of Southern...

• Ten Unheralded Deaths in Music of 2016 (So Far)

  Monday, April 25, 2016 at 8:53 a.m.

  Those are people who died, died /  They were all my friends, and they died That 1980 lyric, penned by the late Jim Carroll, prefigured a spate of celebrity deaths, and while the words describe the demise of junkies and the destitute, the song’s repeated refrain could easily be applied...

• Phife Dawg's Passing Hits Hard

  Friday, March 25, 2016 at 8:58 a.m.

  Once, at a poker game, a guy told me I couldn't appreciate Led Zeppelin the way he did because he grew up with them. I argued I grew up listening to them too, that even though they had broken up by then, I played their CDs until they were all...

• Jon Bunch, Hardcore/ Emo Singer, Dead at 45

  Monday, February 8, 2016 at 8:10 a.m.

  2016 has seen the loss of many notable musicians — including Jon Bunch, one of the greatest frontmen to emerge from the post-punk era. He was known for co-founding L.A. based band Sense Field, and later joining South Florida emo band Further Seems Forever.  For "reasons still unknown," according to...

• RIP, Lemmy Kilmister, Motörhead Frontman, Rock God Personified

  Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 11:04 a.m.

  Today, the sun rose in the same way it presumably has every single day since time began. And today, life endures generally unabated. But today...well, today is different, because today is the first day since December 24, 1945 that this forsaken, spinning blue ball of suffering has existed in the...

• RIP Scott Weiland: Stone Temple Pilots Singer Passes Away at 48

  Monday, December 7, 2015 at 9:39 a.m.

  When news arrived of the passing of Stone Temple Pilots lead singer Scott Weiland this past Thursday, no one who came of age in the '90s should have been surprised. Few rock stars of his era, it seemed, took the cliché of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll more literally...