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Rock Articles
“Magic Power: All Star Tribute To Triumph” Is Out
“Magic Power: All Star Tribute To Triumph,” is a 15-track album that has DOROTHY, Sebastian Bach, Nancy Wilson, Joey Belladonna, Slash, Nita Strauss …
Rock History
President’s Day Special: When Presidents Meet Rock Stars
It doesn’t happen often but when Presidents meet Rock musicians it usually occurs when a musician is being recognized for …
Tremonti Sings At Belmont
Mark Tremonti (Creed, Alter Bridge, Tremonti) sang “New York, New York” at the 157th running of the $2 million Belmont Stakes (on 5.7) Tremonti, doing his spot-on Frank Sinatra impersonation, …
The Week In Rock: June 1st – June 7th
Kid Rock w/ A Big Fan 6/2 Trump Endorses Kid Rock’s Restaurant During the grand opening of Kid Rock’s ‘The Detroit Cowboy’ restaurant in Nashville President Donald Trump takes time …
The Funeral Portrait Goes To #1 For A Second Time
First, The Funeral Portrait went to #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart with “Suffocate City,” now they have reached the top again with “Holy Water” (dated 6/14). The track features …
New Music: Volbeat, Danko Jones, Airbourne & GWAR
Volbeat “God Of Angels Trust.” also includes “By A Monster’s Hand.” Volbeat: Demonic Depression The track is taken from the band’s recently released ninth album, “God Of Angels Trust.” “I’ve played …
The latest News from the Interwebs
- “I love what they have brought to the metal scene. They have a completely different spin on a genre that often runs on the same cart tracks”: Why Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello loves Babymetal
- Live review: Sleep Token, Rock Im Park
- “Not the work of the blues bruiser some supposed him to be, but of an expert in judging precisely when to hang back and when to hit hard”: Jack Bruce’s Harmony Row
- Watch Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney covering The Beatles onstage in Liverpool last night
- “This one was really hard, we had massive arguments”: Radiohead on the making of Hail To The Thief, the record that got away from them
- “The reason Rush could rock while referencing Bertrand Russell and Elizabethan drama”: Neil Peart’s most powerful lyrics
- “He saw what everybody saw: they could play, they had a ton of energy and they were authentic”: The weird story of Frank Zappa and AC/DC
- Watch video for new Scars On Broadway track Killing Spree
- "It should have gone out with a fricking bang that shook the world, and it was more like a whimper." Michael Anthony on his Van Halen regret
- Roger Nichols, Songwriter Behind Carpenters Hits, Dies at 84
- Michael Anthony Regrets That Van Halen Went Out 'With a Whimper'
- Doobie Brothers Albums Ranked Worst to Best
- “No, man! If we had had this level of success in the 70s we would not be here now. We would never have survived it”: The wild story of Aerosmith’s Pump, the album that turned them into superstars all over again
- Rod Stewart Cancels Six US Shows as He Recovers From the Flu
- “Sometimes I think, ‘This has become so big that I can’t handle this monster any more.’ I have some trouble comprehending it”: How Nightwish become the planet’s most epic symphonic metal band with Endless Forms Most Beautiful