A posthumous LP by Gordon Lightfoot, titled At Royal Albert Hall, will arrive on July 14. The double live album was recorded at the prestigious music venue in London, where Lightfoot, who died earlier this month, performed on May 24, 2016. Lightfoot was backed by bassist Rick Haynes, drummer Barry Keane, keyboardist Mike Heffernan and guitarist […]
Somebody asked Muddy Waters what his blues meant. His reply: “Trouble.” “What I meant was that the blues – from the gutbucket, alley blues, which I can offer, right straight up to the sophisticated, drawing room lament fashioned by that master musician Duke Ellington — the blues belong to my people,” the legendary bluesman told […]
By 1973, Funkadelic had performed more explorations of musical form in just four albums than most bands manage in their careers. They delved into it all from blues and R&B to hard rock, psychedelic rock and jazz-rock, culminating with back-to-back classics in 1971’s Maggot Brain and 1972’s formidable double album America Eats Its Young. The […]
Sting argued that most defunct bands could find value in reuniting – but only once and not on a permanent basis. In a recent interview with Music Week he discussed his experience of the Police’s reunion tour of 2007-8, saying they were very clear about what they wanted to do and had no desire to […]
A British politician found himself in trouble for posting the Rainbow track “Kill the King” days after the coronation of Charles III. Labour Party Councillor Dave Jones, an elected member of the local authority of Conwy county, north Wales, said he had no intention of insulting the new monarch when he shared the 1978 song […]
The worst Kiss songs are usually made when they try to sound like someone else. Apparently not content with simply being one of the biggest rock bands on the planet, Kiss has reached for an even wider audience or attempted to resurrect their flagging commercial fortunes by incorporating whatever musical trends were most popular at the […]
John 5 said the hardest part of joining Motley Crue was telling Rob Zombie about the move. The guitarist spent 17 years in the shock rocker’s band before agreeing to replace Mick Mars in Moltey Crue last year. In a recent interview on Sirius XM’s Trunk Nation, 5 said he still worried that he’d damaged […]
Bryan Adams has released a new anti-war song titled “What if There Were No Sides at All.” You can watch the video below. The plaintive, acoustic ballad features languid slide guitar and Adams’ simple pleas for peace. “Don’t make me hate, don’t make me choose,” he implores. “Why should one side win and the other […]
When U2 opens the new MSG Sphere venue in Las Vegas in September, it will become the most expensive entertainment building in the state of Nevada, costing $500 million more than its owners originally expected. It’s now expected to cost $2.3 billion. Announced in 2018, the spherical construction was to cost the Madison Square Garden […]
RATT singer Stephen Pearcy has called out the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, claiming the institution has a bias against bands from the ‘80s. “They don’t give a shit about us, the ’80s groups, at all,” the rocker declared during an interview with Detroit radio station WRIF (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). “The Hollywood scene; […]