Ed Sheeran Joins The Offspring At BottleRock

Ed Sheeran Joins The Offspring At BottleRock

The Offspring was joined by pop maven Ed Sheeran on stage during the band’s performance during Sunday’s BottleRock Napa Valley music festival. They performed a “Million Miles Away” from The Offspring’s ’00 album “Conspiracy Of One,” which the band hadn’t played live since ’16. “Ed told us that one of our records was his first CD that he ever bought…

Vixen Splits With Vocalist Lorraine Lewis

Vixen Splits With Vocalist Lorraine Lewis

Vixen has parted ways with singer Lorraine Lewis (pictured above), who joined the band in ’19 following the departure of founding member, Janet Gardner. In a statement via her social media Lewis noted that “the band has taken a different direction.” Vixen’s most commercially viable period was in the late-80s/early-90s with the albums “Vixen” (’88),”Rev It Up” (’90) which featured…

10 Greatest Rock Songs With Over A Billion Streams On Spotify

10 Greatest Rock Songs With Over A Billion Streams On Spotify

Approximately 60 Rock songs have generated over a billion streams on Sportify. 10. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son The song became a ’60s anti-war anthem and a symbol of the counterculture’s opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war while expressing solidarity with the soldiers fighting it. 9. Black Sabbath: Paranoid With Tony Iommi’s machine-gun guitar…

Rock Songs In The 2020s That Went To The Top and Stayed There
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Rock Songs In The 2020s That Went To The Top and Stayed There

Getting to the top of any chart is difficult but staying there is even harder. The following is a list of songs that stayed at #1 for five weeks or more the on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock chart. Below the title and artist is the date the song reached #1. 5 Weeks: Unforgettable – Godsmack May…

Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys Doc Arrives

Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys Doc Arrives

Disney+ is streaming “The Beach Boy, a celebration of the band whose music encapsulated the California sound and lifestyle. The documentary has never-before-seen footage and interviews with The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston plus archival interviews with the late Carl and Dennis Wilson. Their best-known songs include “California Girls,”…

Springsteen Receives Prestigious Award

Springsteen Receives Prestigious Award

Bruce Springsteen received the Ivors Academy fellowship Thursday (5/23) night in London. He is the first international songwriter, 27th person overall, to be inducted into the fellowship, which is the awards’ highest honor. Sir Paul McCartney led the induction ceremony joking that “unlike Bruce’s concerts” he would “keep this brief.” The Academy is one of…

Lenny Kravitz Album Arrives

Lenny Kravitz Album Arrives

“Blue Electric Light,” the twelfth studio album by Lenny Kravitz, is out. It is his first album since ’18’s “Raise Vibration.” Kravitz recorded the album in his studio in the Bahamas and played most of the instruments with contributions from frequent collaborator, guitarist Craig Ross. The lead single was “TK421.” “Blue Electric Light” Track Listing: ###

Iron Butterfly Founder Doug Ingle Dies

Iron Butterfly Founder Doug Ingle Dies

Iron Butterfly founding member, organist, primary composer and lead vocalist Doug Ingle died on 5/24 at the age of 78. Ingle wrote, sang and played organ on the psychedelic Rock band’s best-known song – the 1968 classic “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.” Ingle was the last surviving member of Iron Butterfly’s classic “Vida-era” line-up. Following the release of Iron Butterfly’s debut album “Heavy,” the…

The Week In Rock: GN’R Honored, Hoobastank Surpass A Billion & Bad Omens Bail

The Week In Rock: GN’R Honored, Hoobastank Surpass A Billion & Bad Omens Bail

5/19 Clown, the founding Slipknot percussionist. misses the band’s headlining appearance at the Sonic Temple festival. “Clown, yesterday, broke a tooth and had to have it removed,” frontman Corey Taylor told the audience. “There’s an issue. He had to stay home for medical reasons.” The show goes on. 5/21 Guns N’ Roses’ “Appetite For Destruction” is…