Canada: The land of endless snow, igloos and Bob & Doug McKenzie. At least that’s how some rather judgmental, close-minded people see this great country. Others might be inclined to point a finger of blame at the Great White North for giving the world the likes of Nickelback and Justin Bieber. But let’s be fair, […]
Motley Crue played an intimate a club show for approximately 450 fans in London on Friday night (June 30). The performance was not officially a Motley Crue gig. Instead, the band played under the pseudonym Dogs of War — which is reportedly the name of an upcoming song form the band, though it wasn’t featured in their […]
When Fresh, the sixth album by Sly & the Family Stone, went on sale on June 30, 1973, it wasn’t the LP that reviewers had praised on prerelease listening. Not only was there a new song, but each track on the record was significantly different from the ones Epic Records had approved. That might be a bewildering development for […]
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were the most powerful men in Hollywood in early 1980 when they decided to work together on a new movie based on the movie serials of the ’30s and ’40s. The idea – conceived by Lucas and directed by Spielberg – centered on an archaeologist who took on Nazis in the […]
Anyone who believed 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull would be the last we’d ever see of Harrison Ford’s rugged action hero probably based that on the thought that the star, now 80, couldn’t possibly squeeze into the fedora one more time – let alone carry out the body-taxing adventures that come with […]
A new docuseries will chronicle the trials and tribulations of the ’80s glam-metal zeitgeist, shining a light on five artists who experienced success and struggle in equal measure. I Wanna Rock: The ’80s Metal Dream will premiere exclusively on Paramount+ on July 18 in the United States and Canada and July 19 in the United […]
Fall Out Boy has released a cover of Billy Joel‘s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” complete with updated lyrics to reflect the history of the world from 1989 to the present. Joel’s original song, a No. 1 hit, covers a multitude of events from 1949 to the year of its release, 1989, name checking historical and […]
Aerosmith’s debut single “Dream On” is timeless. And its creation is remarkable, considering the song was only completed thanks to a suitcase full of drug money. The tune’s origins can be traced back several years before Aerosmith was formed. Singer Steven Tyler had grown up in a musical household: His father was a classically trained pianist. Throughout his childhood, […]
The Beatles catalog includes so many classic and timeless songs, it’s easy to forget that not all of them are gold. As their albums got better, and their creative impulses grew stronger, picking out the lesser numbers gets more difficult, as you’ll see in the below list of the Worst Song on Every Beatles Album. Sometimes […]
Genesis was a band of many eras, with each of them capable of producing a real stinker. They had the pre-Phil Collins era with Peter Gabriel, the artful era they shared with Steve Hackett, the post-Hackett era of trio chart domination and then the post-Collins era. In some cases, the band’s only real connection with […]