Douglas McCarthy, the singer of the pioneering U.K. proto-industrial band Nitzer Ebb, has died. He was 58. The band confirmed the news on its social media accounts. It did not list a cause of death.

Born Eric Garth Hudson in Windsor, Ontario on Aug. 2, 1937, music was a part of his life from the very beginning. Hudson joined a family of musicians: his father played flute, drums, cornet and ...

Following the Band’s celebrated, star-studded farewell show, “The Last Waltz,” in San Francisco on Thanksgiving 1976, the act called it quits in the studio with “Islands” (1977); the ...