Best Rock Songs of the 2000s

On this day… Jack White’s “Boarding House Reach” was #1 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 124,000 copies. It was his third consecutive chart-topping record as a solo artist.  “Boarding House Reach” was written in Nashville and recorded throughout ’17 in Nashville, New York City, and L.A. White produced and co-mixed the Blues Rock set and,…

On this day… “Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster” premiered in New York City. The film chronicled the band’s bitter in-fighting and visits to a therapist during the “St. Anger” sessions. Six weeks in to recording, frontman James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich have an intense argument. Hetfield storms out and enters rehab to undergo treatment for…

Featuring Glenn Frey’s “The Heat Is On,” the “Beverly Hills Cop” soundtrack topped the Billboard 200 for two weeks.  Frey was the only Rock-oriented performer on the soundtrack which included Patti LaBelle (“New Attitude:), Pointer Sisters (“Neutron Dance”) and Harold Faltermeyer (“Axel F”). It won a Grammy Award in ’86 for Best Score Soundtrack for…

On this day… The Pretenders Chrissie Hynde was detained by police following a PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) protest outside a Paris KFC. Hynde, one of a dozen protesters in all, shut down traffic by blocking the street. They also smeared the KFC windows with red paint which symbolized the blood of dead…