Joy Division is a cornerstone in the history of British music. Yet despite their massive impact, their actual time together was fairly brief, with their live tenure ending on May 2, 1980, less than four years after their formation. The group helped bridge the gap between ’70s punk and a new, less chaotic era of rock — sparser, more atmospheric and intensely pensive. They […]
It’s easy to experience musical whiplash at the Big Ears Festival. As you hop around Knoxville, Tennessee’s sweltering clubs and regal theaters, you may soak in jazz-funk textures at one show, trailed minutes later by avant-garde metal bombast. It’s certainly a high-brow experience not suited for everyone — but still, the four-day event never feels snooty. […]
The Rolling Stones seem to have confirmed the title and cover art for their upcoming studio album. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ron Wood each posted what appears to be one-third of an album cover Saturday on their Instagram accounts. When pieced together, the trio’s faces seem to merge into one, like a better version of […]
The album artwork for Duran Duran’s Rio is an iconic part of ‘80s history. But despite its status as one of the era’s most recognizable covers, the band never got to meet its creator. It was Patrick Nagel who came up with the distinctive image. Duran Duran was introduced to his work by their manager, […]
The list of Rock Legends Who Never Had a No. 1 Single is all the more surprising when you consider the success so many of them had by any other measure. They’ve sold millions of albums, had videos in wall-to-wall rotation, sold out football stadiums across the globe, won Grammys and been inducted into the Rock […]
King Ultramega have released a gripping version of Chris Cornell’s “Dead Wishes featuring Brann Dailor of Mastodon. You can listen to the track below. For the past year, the all-star collective, helmed by Mark Menghi of Metal Allegiance, have been sharing a series of reimagined versions of songs from across Cornell’s career, drawing on his […]
“Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world…” — so says the Journey song. But Steve Perry wasn’t really talking about the country kid who knew how to catch a greased pig and muck out a horse stall before the rest of America had tuned into David Hartman and Joan Lunden talking about Prince Charles […]
When Muddy Waters moved to Chicago in 1943, it didn’t take him terribly long to find his footing in the local music community. “There was quite a few people around singing the blues, but most of them was singing all sad blues,” fellow bluesman Willie Dixon later said of the scene (via the 1987 book […]
Take a walk down memory lane with the following photo gallery of 20 rock and metal stars in 1986 vs. now. The ’80s were a period of radical change in hard rock and metal, and 1986 was no exception. As the decade entered its second half, young and hungry artists staked their claim for greatness while the genre’s elder […]
Grand Funk Railroad has added summer concert dates to their current Still Shinin’ On tour. The new shows, which expand the band’s run through the end of summer, come with the news that the band’s singer since 2000, Max Carl, is retiring from the group. In a statement that was released with the new tour dates, the […]