Rock History

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…

Buckcherry formed in 1995. Whether the band’s name was a spoonerism of ‘Chuck Berry’ or the moniker of a drag queen acquaintance ‘Buck Cherry’, remains unsettled. Over the band’s history, over a dozen musicians have been in Buckcherry with lead singer Josh Todd being the only constant. A self-titled debut, released in ’99, was DreamWorks first…

There are a lot of valid reasons for skipping the high school prom but being on tour is usually not one of them.  With Greta Van Fleet band members still in high school, the Frankenmuth, MI, based band signed a recording contract with Lava/Republic Records and embarked on a tour to support their EP “Black Smoke…

“Hackney Diamonds,” the Rolling Stones first album of original material since ‘05 (“A Bigger Bang”), is out. It’s also the first album since the death of the band’s fourth member, drummer extraordinaire Charlie Watts, in ’21. The twelve-track set, produced by Andrew Watt, was recorded in L.A., New York, London and Nassau, Bahamas. Watt was…

The Rolling Stones have had a remarkable career with incredible highs, and despite tragic lows, they have prevailed (surviving the firing and death of guitarist Brian Jones, the departure of Jones’ replacement Mick Taylor, the retirement of bassist Bill Wyman, the passing of drummer Charlie Watts, not to mention rampant drug abuse and run-ins with…

Creed‘s Scott Stapp will release his fourth solo album, “Higher Power,” on March 15th. “Tapping into a higher power is an individualized process that requires an open mind and a willingness to flow with a force that’s greater than the individual,” explained Stapp. The album features the title track and the new single “What I Deserve.”  “Higher Power” Track…

Fame is fleeting. Cult status lasts forever. It was nearly a decade before the rest of the world caught up with the New York Dolls. Though their two studio albums won critical praise, they were commercial failures. Efforts at media manipulation failed miserably even though some heavy talents were involved. Original members split and were…

The following list is not to imply that Green Day has only three great songs. They have a long list of brilliance (“Basket Case,” Longview,” “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” and “American Idiot,” to name a few) but the following three songs stand above the rest. Over the course of their career Green Day has been…

“Portraits Of Lemmy,” a photographic celebration of Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, Motorhead’s lead singer, bassist and driving force, is available to order. The coffee table photobook traces Lemmy’s career from the early 1970s until his death in 2015 through a series of rare and previously unseen photographs. The main edition comes in 666 numbered copies and sells…