Category Archives: Classic Rock

Ringo Starr Announces 2023 Spring Tour

Ringo Starr has announced new tour dates for 2023. The former Beatle and his All Starr Band — which currently consists of Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Edgar Winter, Warren Ham, Hamish Stuart and Gregg Bissonette — will launch a spring tour on May 19 in Temecula, Calif. The trek contains mostly West Coast dates, including a three-night […]

Top 15 Jeff Beck Albums

If, as usual, the death of a rock hero ignites a mad scramble to hear their music, there’s certainly no shortage of Jeff Beck material to be consumed. With a career spanning 60 years, the guitarist’s catalog boasts plenty of unique offerings. Beck’s recordings starting with the single “Dracula’s Daughter”/”Come Back Baby” with Screaming Lord Sutch and […]

Ozzy Osbourne Says He’s ‘Deeply Nervous’ About Returning to TV

Ozzy Osbourne will star in the upcoming BBC reality series Home to Roost, but the Black Sabbath singer admitted that returning to TV makes him “deeply nervous.” The 10-part show will focus on Osbourne and his family as they settle back into life in rural Buckinghamshire, England. Last year, Osbourne revealed that after 25 years of living in the […]

20 Albums Turning 20 in 2023

Classic rock was hardly the genre du jour in 2003, but several of its biggest names still made impressive statements, while a handful of pioneering younger bands took cues from the masters. Southern rock legends the Allman Brothers Band issued their last studio LP, Hittin’ the Note, their only album without founding guitarist Dickey Betts. Singer-songwriter Warren Zevon also […]

Steve Perry Reportedly Drops Journey Trademark Claim

Former Journey singer Steve Perry has reportedly dropped his legal claim against one of the band’s corporations over the trademarking of 20 songs. Guitarist Neal Schon revealed the letter he’d received from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, confirming that “Petitioner, without the written consent of Respondent, filed a withdrawal of the petition for cancellation […]

Iggy Pop Names His Favorite Song from ‘Raw Power’

Iggy Pop reflected on pushing the Stooges‘ most acclaimed album to completion despite knowing the band was disintegrating at the time. Raw Power, released in February 1973, became a landmark work of punk rock. In a new interview with Uncut, Pop marked its upcoming 50th anniversary by naming his favorite song from the eight-track title. […]