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Hal Willner — the respected producer who worked with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull, was a long-time Saturday Night Live staffer and compiled a series of offbeat and creative all-star tribute albums — died Tuesday at the age of 64. A rep for Willner confirmed the producer’s death to Rolling …

Gene Reynolds, who co-created the lauded TV series M*A*S*H that centered on an American medical team stationed in South Korea during the Korean War, has died. He was 96. Reynolds died on Monday of heart failure at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, CNN reports. The news was …

A body found in the search for Frightened Rabbit‘s Scott Hutchison has been identified as the singer-songwriter, police confirmed Friday morning. Hutchison was reported missing late Tuesday night in South Queensferry outside Edinburgh, Scotland after sending a pair of “worrying” tweets. Hutchison’s body was found late Thursday night in the …

Nokie Edwards, whose guitar playing in the Ventures helped define surf rock and earned the group a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, died on Monday. He was 82 years old. “Nokie Edwards passed away today after several months battling an infection after hip surgery this past …

Lil Peep, the New York rapper who mixed guitar-driven emo and rap production on mixtapes that gained millions of plays on SoundCloud, died Wednesday night at age 21. A representative for the rapper confirmed his death to Rolling Stone. According to thePima County Office of the Medical Examiner (via Pitchfork), …

George Young, guitarist in the Sixties band the Easybeats and the co-producer on AC/DC‘s first five albums, has died at the age of 70. Young was the older brother of the band’s Angus and Malcolm Young, who confirmed his deathon Facebook.“It is with pain in our heart that we have …

“When I die,” Harry Dean Stanton told me once, “people are going to say, ‘I thought he was dead already.’” Typical Stanton – and atypically wrong. Though reports insist that the man actually has died at 91, avid moviegoers know he’s always been around when we needed a Stanton fix …