Singer Sinead O’Connor sparked outrage on Oct. 3, 1992, when she tore up a picture of the Pope during her musical performance on Saturday Night Live. In the lead-up to the episode, show creator Lorne Michaels had all of his attention on outspoken host Tim Robbins. The politically active actor had pitched a searing broadside […]
Steve Miller Band will commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Joker with the J50: The Evolution of The Joker box set, which arrives on Sept. 15. J50 is available to preorder now in two-CD, three-LP (plus bonus 7″) and digital formats. Miller is previewing the collection with “The Joker Suite,” which showcases his musical journey to the album’s chart-topping title […]
Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers assumed the song he was writing in 1973 about a slow-moving Texas town called “China Grove” was fictional. Until he remembered that it wasn’t. The song started simply. “I wasn’t quite sure what it was,” Johnston recalled in 2022’s Long Train Runnin’: Our Story of The Doobie Brothers. “I just […]
The Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb and the lingering threat of nuclear holocaust offered a wellspring of inspiration for some of rock’s biggest names. In turn, one of these topical songs — Sting‘s “Russians” — planted a seed in director Christopher Nolan’s mind that would eventually germinate into his new biographical epic, Oppenheimer. “I first heard about […]
Whether in business or music, re-branding is always a risky endeavor. A true re-brand means taking an already established entity and giving it an overhaul. There’s a chance the new version may be better than the original, but it’s also possible you’ll alienate and drive away the very consumers who made you successful in the […]
Lynyrd Skynyrd brought a set packed full of hits to the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre on Saturday evening in Tampa, Florida, for the second night of their Sharp Dressed Simple Man tour with ZZ Top. You can see the complete set list and videos from the concert below. This marks the first major trek since founding […]
Paul Simon says he’s been experimenting with performing with his band again, but has yet to find a comfortable way to do so on account of his hearing loss. Simon retired from the road in 2018 with his Homeward Bound: The Farewell Tour and has since only appeared at one-off concerts. Earlier this year, he revealed […]
As the list of Eagles Songs Ranked Worst to Best shows, they made their legend in a veritable blink of an eye. There have been only seven studio albums and fewer than 90 songs. Only one of those studio efforts, 2007’s Long Road Out of Eden, arrived outside of a tight seven-year span in the ’70s that […]
Another long-lost Steely Dan track has finally been brought to light — this time, an early-’70s jingle written for the Milwaukee-based Schlitz Beer. You can listen to the track below. The Schlitz Beer jingle comes from the archive of late, longtime Steely Dan engineer Roger Nichols. It arrives roughly one month after the 1979 song […]
Move over, mash-ups. AI-generated cover versions are here for your crown. Mashups are typically created by isolating one artist’s original vocal track and pairing it with the original music from a completely different song. One popular example finds James Hetfield singing “Enter Sandman” over the music to Huey Lewis and the News’ “Hip to Be […]