Best Rock Songs of the 1970s

Just in time for Christmas, a deluxe reissue of The Black Crowes‘ second album, “The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion,” has arrived. Released in ’92, the original album was the first effort to feature guitarist Marc Ford, who replace Jeff Cease, and keyboardist Eddie Harsch. It topped the Billboard 200 and has sold over 2,000,000 copies. The…

4/1 Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg debuts a new mask. Weinberg worked with Japanese artist Solid Blackline to create a new mask specially for Knotfest Japan shows.  4/2 The CMT (Country Music Television) Music Awards pay tribute to Southern Rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd and the band’s late guitarist Gary Rossington with a multi-genre salute that includes Slash (Guns N’ Roses),…

Zakk Wylde (Black Label Society/Pantera) has announced his inaugural music festival, Berzerkus, Set to take place on Saturday, September 14th, at Poconos Park in Bushkill, PA,  Berzerkus will be co-headlined by Outlaw Country music’s Cody Jinks and Black Label Society (pictured). Concertgoers will experience a full-day event with a car show, a music gear market, craft beer festival and battle of…

Sheryl Crow’s 11th album “Evolution” has arrived. Produced by Mike Elizondohe, the set contains the single “Alarm Clock,” which Crow co-wrote with Grammy winning songwriter/performer Emily Weisband. Crow had previously stated that she didn’t intend to release another full-length album following her ’18 release “Threads.” “I started sending just a couple of demos to Mike,…

After leaving Guns N’ Roses, Slash (guitar), Duff McKagan(bass) and Matt Sorum (drums) played a charity gig. They realized they still had a great chemistry. Auditions resulted in guitarist Dave Kushner’s addition. Now it was time to find a vocalist. Ex-Stone Temple Pilot vocalist Scott Weiland, one of the 90’s more impressive talents, signed on….

Metallica will play  Soundstorm festival in Riyadh on December 14th. It will be the band’s first concert in Saudi Arabia. “When we started playing, there were so many parts of the world where the type of music that we were doing was not really accepted,” noted Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. “But it’s opening up. It’s changing and…