buddy holly

Rob Zombie has a ton of followers on Instagram. So when he posted an old picture from the Buddy Holly statue in Lubbock, our friends noticed.

This September at Lubbock's Clarion Hotel will be the Tornado Alley Tattoo Expo. And the actual Peggy Sue will be one of the judges for a pin-up contest.

I graduated Lubbock High School (barely) in the 1990s. (Trying to not date myself too much.) That school has some stories to tell!

Fifty eight years have passed since Buddy Holly died in a tragic plane crash in Iowa. Lubbock's Buddy Holly Center is planning a day of events to honor the singer.

On this day in 1936 Buddy Holly was born in Lubbock Texas. On October 18th 2000 Pearl Jam came to the Hub and gave us a little surprise in his honor.

In celebration of what would have been Buddy Holly's 80th birthday (September 7), the Buddy Holly Center is hosting an all-day bash to celebrate.

Legendary musician Peter Frampton is apparently playing Holly's hit song "Peggy Sue" as part of his acoustic solo tour.

Here are five things you may not know about Buddy Holly.

I have to confess one thing up front. At the time of most of these doings, I was pretty uninterested. I was a lot like a lot of other young people, my music mattered to me and anything that happened before then seemed somewhat irrelevant. Anyways, you may not realize it, but KFMX was WAY more instrumental in honoring Buddy and the Crickets than anybody realizes.

This year marks the 56th anniversary of the tragic plane crash that claimed the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP "The Big Bopper" Richardson, Jr.

Paul McCartney paid his respects to Lubbock, Texas native Buddy Holly with a touching cover of "It's So Easy."

It is rough in the streets in Lubbock. The football team is stumblin', three Texas Tech fraternities have been suspended (the last for some real rape-y behavior) and the whole place is currently a mud pit.  With all those nonsense making headlines, it's good to see a positive spotlight on the town.