Rockin’Town Hall of Fame Nominees
Vote for the Rock Artist That should be included in the Rockin’Town Hall of Fame. Artists with the most votes will be added to the Rockin’Town Hall of Fame at the end of the year.
Vote for the Rock Artist That should be included in the Rockin’Town Hall of Fame. Artists with the most votes will be added to the Rockin’Town Hall of Fame at the end of the year.
“House Of The Rising Sun” is a traditional Folk song that was first recorded in the ‘30’s and later covered by Pete Seger, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, among others, in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s. That was before The Animals, a British Blues band, took it to #1 in the U.S., U.K. and…
When a band’s first albums are titled “I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love” (’02) and “Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge” (’04), there’s an obvious skewed world view. No wonder, My Chemical Romance was from New Jersey. The name MCR was procured from cult writer Irvine Walsh’s novel “Ecstasy – Three Tales…
The decade began innocently with the Beach Boys, The Beatles and the British invasion and ended with Hard Rock from Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and Steppenwolf. Solos kept getting longer with the Iron Butterfly putting a capper on it with their 17-minute epic, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.” “If you remember the 1960’s you weren’t there.”…
Hailing from Port Arthur, Texas, Janis Joplin had a lot of hurt and resentment. She was, through her youth, seen as different or crazy by the locals. At age seventeen she fled. Joplin had taken an interest in poetry and Folk singing. Along the way she picked up an appreciation for Blues and was influenced…
Pat Benatar and Christine McVie’s estate have both closed deals to sell rights to their music to the acquisition firm HarbourView Equity Partners. McVie’s estate has sold her stake in Fleetwood Mac’s recorded music, which includes “Say You Love Me,” along with other band hits “Go Your Own Way,” “The Chain” and “Dreams.” McVie passed…
Former Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach has released his fifth solo album, “Child Within The Man;” The set features “What Do I Got To Lose?” and “Everybody Bleeds.”. According to Bach, it is “an album more than 10 years in the making.” His last solo effort was a decade ago. “If you like the records…