The Monkees were initially hired as actors to play a struggling rock band. The series linked the onscreen personas of Nesmith, Dolenz, Jones, and Tork to music, making for an enhanced viewer ...

Micky Dolenz is headed to Mesa with a show called Mickey Dolenz: Songs and Stories. And it makes perfect sense that the last Monkee standing would find himself gravitating toward a storyteller format ...

The Monkees guitarist Mike Nesmith has long been applauded for his fusion of rock and country music as far back as the late 1960s. However, Nesmith squashed the idea he was a “pioneer” of country rock ...

The Monkees may be more known from their ’60s “television show about a band,” but they made some outstanding and underrated records. Their catalog is very diverse. Bubblegum, psychedelia, vaudeville, ...

While the 1960s was a flourishing time for music both in America and abroad with the British Invasion, The Monkees still managed to carve a lane all their own. Introduced to audiences via The Monkees ...

Micky Dolenz, the last surviving member of The Monkees, is celebrating his 80th birthday with a national tour blending iconic songs and wild behind-the-scenes stories He recalls unforgettable moments ...

No, you aren’t having a flashback. On Friday, the last surviving member of The Monkees will release his EP of R.E.M. covers. And he’ll celebrate the occasion at Wuxtry Records in Athens, legendary for ...

Four years after the death of Mike Nesmith left him the last Monkee standing, Micky Dolenz says he'll be too busy singing in 2026 to bring anybody down about that.

It was Nov. 14, 2021, when Micky Dolenz last saw Michael Nesmith at the final concert of the Monkees Farewell Tour at the historic Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, not far from where they'd met as young ...

People initially labelled them a fabricated band, but we’ve got the Monkees to thank for being pop's first ever synth players ...