Robert Plant and Eddie Vedder joined Roger Daltrey onstage Sunday for a rendition of the Who’s “Baba O’Riley” at London’s Royal Albert Hall, providing a rousing finale to the annual Teenage Cancer Trust benefit. You can watch video of the performance below. Sunday’s “Ovation” concert marked the end of the weeklong musical festivities and the end […]
Former Dokken bassist Jeff Pilson has expressed his disappointment in the group’s recent box set. In 2023, Dokken released The Elektra Albums 1983 – 1987, a set containing the band’s first four albums: Breaking the Chains, Tooth and Nail, Under Lock and Key and Back for the Attack. Pilson, who played on all of those […]
There are a lot of things in the music business that are copyrighted and can’t be poached — album titles are not one of them. Just like bands often share song titles with other acts, album titles also have a habit of cropping up more than once. In some cases, there’s a direct correlation between […]
The death toll for Friday’s mass shooting and arson at a Russian concert venue near Moscow has risen to at least 133, making it one of the country’s worst terrorist attacks in decades, The New York Times reports. Russian authorities said they have arrested the four people who committed the attack on Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, where the […]
ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons has traveled the world and spent countless hours in clubs with no shortage of character. Now, he owns one. Fittingly, the timeline of the Wise River Club is a bit blurry, as a story on its website notes. But in its earliest days in the 1900s, it quickly became a meeting […]
Bruce Springsteen is looking to mix things up as he heads back on the road following an unanticipated break. “I think we’re approaching [the 2024 World Tour] like it’s a new tour,” the rock legend explained during a conversation with SiriusXM’s E Street Radio host Jim Rotolo. “There will be some things from last year’s […]
The Effect, a new band featuring guitarist Trev Lukather and drummer Nic Collins, has just released their newest single, “Toxic Envy.” You can watch the video below. The group, which also features vocalist Emmett Stang and keyboardist Steve Maggiora, are early in their journey. But its members have already been well-seasoned by heavy road work […]
Slash provided one of the biggest highlights at this year’s Oscars ceremony when he showed up to perform “I’m Just Ken” alongside Ryan Gosling and Wolfgang Van Halen. Still, the Guns N’ Roses guitarist admits he initially planned to skip the event. During a recent conversation with Classic Rock, Slash detailed how he got caught […]
In 1984, the two-year-old MTV network still had a lot to prove about its rock credentials, and bosses were serious about proving it all. At the same time, Van Halen had nothing left to prove – but it didn’t stop the parties connecting to offer one of the most outlandish prizes ever to the band’s […]
Letters central to one of the most famous love triangles in rock history are set to hit the auction block. Pattie Boyd, the famed model who romanced both George Harrison and Eric Clapton, is putting more than 100 personal items up for auction. Among them, letters Clapton wrote to woo her away from the quiet […]