Remember The Monkees? Originally a “fake” band designed for a television program in the 1960s, the members of the outfit banded together to gain more creative control over the music they produced, ...

A 1969 clip of The Monkees on The Johnny Cash Show performing a Nesmith original is a reminder they were the real deal.

The late Michael Nesmith loved returning to the Monkees and the foursome’s hit catalog in recent years as a celebration of his friendship with Mickey Dolenz. But during his tenure with the Monkees in ...

While promoting the band’s 2020 live album, The Monkees vocalist and drummer Micky Dolenz described what jamming with bandmate Mike Nesmith, AKA “Nez,” was like. According to Dolenz, the two had a ...

Quincy Jones was the big winner at the Grammys, taking home five awards. “Bette Davis Eyes” won Song of the Year. Double Fantasy by John Lennon and Yoko Ono won Album of the Year. And, a brand new ...

Monkees singer and guitarist Michael Nesmith has died at the age of 78. “With Infinite Love we announce that Michael Nesmith has passed away this morning in his home, surrounded by family, peacefully ...

For a musician whose commercial peak came more than 50 years ago, Michael Nesmith had a rousing swan song. The singer and guitarist for the Monkees died Friday of heart failure at his home in ...

Influenced by the creative spirit of Michael Nesmith and The First National Band, Loose Salute has become a band worth emulating — and certainly worth listening to — in its own right. Fronted by ...

Michael Nesmith, who attained TV and pop stardom in the Monkees and later became a prophetic figure on the Los Angeles country-rock scene and then a multimedia entrepreneur, died Friday of natural ...