After answering a casting call for “4 insane boys,” Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Mike Nesmith were selected to portray The Monkees, whose similarities to The Beatles were entirely ...

Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard wrote a song for The Monkees' new album, titled Good Times! NPR's Stephen Thompson shares "Me & Magdalena" with... Hey, Hey, It's 50 Years Of The Monkees! The ...

Peter Tork might start laughing Wednesday night. It will come without warning, provoked by a quick glance, a smirk or a goofy gesture from his lifelong friend and Monkees bandmate Micky Dolenz. You ...

Whenever “Hey, hey, we’re the Monkees” reverberated from TV sets throughout American neighborhoods in 1966, excited youngsters settled themselves before the screen awaiting a half-hour of madcap ...

The Monkees, celebrating its 50th anniversary, are touring with its first new album in 20 years, “Good Times!,” and will perform June 30 at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa.

“Hey Hey, We’re the Monkees” was a familiar tune that drew us all to our black-and-white television sets with the “bunny-ear” antenna and crumpled aluminum foil at the ends on Monday nights in 1966 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Before there was MTV, before "American Idol" made overnight stars of people you never heard of, there was "The Monkees," a band fronted by a diminutive singer named Davy Jones who ...

In 1966, the world was introduced to the television show The Monkees. While decades later bands like the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC would be put together for pop fame, the Los Angeles-born group The ...

The world of pop music just lost one of its quiet powerhouses. Bobby Hart, half of the famed songwriting duo Boyce and Hart, has passed away at the age of 86. If you’ve ever found yourself humming ...

Mike Nesmith, the genius musician, songwriter, filmmaker, and pop-culture innovator best known as the dry-witted, wooly-hatted guitarist/co-frontman of the 1960s’ zeitgeist-capturing TV band the ...

t’s still spring, but the month of May is going to feel more like summer when it comes to major events taking place at beach bars and concert venues. Monkees legend Micky Dolenz bringing solo show to ...

Hey, Hey, it's Micky Dolenz. The lead singer of early chart-topping pop group and TV sensation The Monkees recently chatted with NH Weekend about the sudden death this year of longtime band mate Davy ...