The estate of Ric Ocasek, cofounder and songwriter of the Cars, and Primary Wave Music have announced a new partnership that will see the company acquiring the late artist’s publishing catalog, ...

Ocasek, who passed away in 2019, is best known for being the lead singer and songwriter for popular pop/rock band The Cars The Cars were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018 Based in ...

There is a defining moment in the BBC TV coverage of Live Aid on 13 July, 1985, when the whole humanitarian purpose of the global star-studded benefit concert is brought into stark and harrowing ...

Rest in peace, Ric Ocasek, the gawkiest new wave icon, the most repressed control freak, the strangest and most deadpan singer-songwriter to have crafted pop jewels. With the Cars, Ocasek wrote ...

It’s been 33 years since Nada Surf started in New York City, and nearly 30 since the alt.rock group made its first album, “High/Low,” with the Cars’ Ric Ocasek producing. Making music hasn’t gotten ...

(Reuters) - Ric Ocasek, the idiosyncratic lead singer and chief songwriter of the 1970s and 80s hook-heavy hitmakers The Cars, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 75. Ocasek was pronounced ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ric Ocasek, The Cars frontman whose deadpan vocal delivery and lanky, sunglassed look defined a rock era with chart-topping hits like “Just What I Needed,” was discovered dead Sunday ...

Twenty-five years ago, a not-insignificant segment of music fans learned about the greatness of the Cars via Weezer’s self-titled debut, widely known as “The Blue Album.” Back then, one of the major ...

Paulina Porizkova is celebrating her son Jonathan's wedding — and the sweet nod to his parents that he included in his special day. Jonathan Otcasek — the 30-year-old son of Porizkova and the late ...