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“Never criticize or make a joke at Taylor Swift’s expense,” should be a showbiz axiom. Violate that rule and you will suffer mightily. Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl (pictured above) found that out over the weekend in London where both the Foos and Swift were performing. Swift is currently on her hugely successful “Eras Tour.”…
1999: Eric Clapton auctioned 100 guitars including ‘Brownie’, used to record “Layla,” raising $5 million for the Crossroads Center, a drug rehab clinic Clapton founded. 2004: One of Clapton’s prize guitars, “Blackie,” a black-and-white Fender Stratocaster, was sold for $959,500 at an auction that raised more than $7.4 million also for the Crossroads Centre. “Lenny,”…
Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway To Heaven” is one of the most iconic songs in Rock. Flush with classic riffs, it was not too surprising a dispute over the origins of a portion of the song would occur – especially since guitarist Jimmy Page had a notorious reputation for lifting riffs from other musicians. On this day…
The family of KISS guitar tech Fran Stueber, who contracted COVID and died during the band’s “End Of The Road World Tour,” won a round in their wrongful death lawsuit against KISS members – guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley, bassist Gene Simmons and KISS’s longtime manager Doc McGee. Tour promoter Live Nation and hotel chain Marriott (where Stueber…
“Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple,” a documentary about the E Street Band guitarist and ‘The Sopranos” actor, is on HBO. The film premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. The documentary includes testimonials from Paul McCartney, Eddie Vedder, Bill Wyman, Bono, Darlene Love, Joan Jett, Peter Gabriel, and, you guessed it, Bruce Springsteen….
Rosa Laricchiuta made her debut with Vixen on Friday (6/21) at the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA. She was recruited following the recent departure of Lorraine Lewis. “The band has taken a different direction,” Lewis stated last month, concluding a five-year run with Vixen. A day later, the band announced it had found a replacement lead…
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…
“Fire,” Kittie’s seventh studio album, but first in 13 years – since the release of “I’ve Failed You” (’11), has dropped. For over a decade the band was on a hiatus due to rising costs associated with touring/recording and the suicide death of bassist Trish Doan in ’17. They ended their hiatus in early ’22, with…
The Story So Far have released their fifth studio album, “I Want To Disappear.” The album comes nearly six years after “Proper Dose,” which debuted at #19 on the Billboard 200 chart. “I Want To Disappear” features “Big Blind” and “Letterman“. The California Pop-Punk band, who took their name from a New Found Glory song, are currently…
On this day… Dolly Parton’s single, “Bygones,” featuring Judas Priest‘s Rob Halford (pictured) with Mötley Crüe‘s Nikki Sixx and John 5, debuted at #1 on the Mediabase Classic Rock Songs chart. After being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the previous year, the Country-legend vowed to record a Rock album. “Rockstar,” a collaborative project with a…