Sammy Hagar said Eddie Van Halen’s son Wolfgang effectively held the band’s legacy on his own, and accepted that “dysfunction” meant a previously-discussed tribute event for the late guitarist might never happen. Reports circulated after former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted said he’d been asked to take part, along with Joe Satriani, but further comments from those potentially […]
Jimmy Iovine, who was the engineer on Bruce Springsteen’s classic album Born to Run, recalled how the Boss sent him to sleep twice during recording sessions. In a new interview with Variety, Iovine said he learned valuable lessons while working on the 1975 LP, which helped him develop his successful career as a label boss and entrepreneur. Asked […]
Music fans frustrated over concert ticket hidden fees have gotten a powerful ally. President Joe Biden recently announced he would be coming after the such “surprise charges” as part of a sweeping new initiative. In a speech on Oct. 26, Biden announced he’d asked his Competition Council to take on “the unfair hidden fees known […]
Zakk Wylde warned Pantera fans not to expect him to sound like Dimebag Darrell Abbott at the upcoming tribute shows. There’s been some controversy surrounding the announcement that Pantera members Phil Anselmo and Rex Brown will reunite to celebrate the memory of bandmates Dimebag Darrell and his brother, drummer Vinnie Paul, who died in 2004 and […]
Becoming a successful artist is difficult. Remaining on top forever is downright impossible. Careers naturally ebb and flow, as acts do everything possible to make the highs last as long as possible. The most common evolution sees a star’s popularity slowly decline, eventually landing somewhere between the “legacy act” to “whatever happened to” range. There […]
George Lynch says that during Dokken‘s first go-round, the band approached every album “like it would be our last one.” Back for the Attack looked like it would be exactly that – at least for a while. The melodic hard-rock quartet’s fourth album, which was released on Nov. 2, 1987, came out riding a wave of great […]
As would be the case 31 years later with another classic “Weekend Update” correspondent on Saturday Night Live, Gilda Radner’s Roseanne Roseannadanna originally appeared on the show in a different form. Like Bill Hader’s Stefon, the woman who would become Roseanne was first imagined as a sketch character before everyone involved recognized that they’d struck another […]
Billy Joel threw a curveball with “Allentown,” the second single from The Nylon Curtain. Offering a state-of-the-nation treatise amid the Ronald Reagan presidency, the song looked at the decline of the industrial northwest through the eastern Pennsylvania town that bears its name. More essentially, “Allentown” – a city on Joel’s touring circuit early in his […]
Four names come to mind when you think of Motley Crue: Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, Vince Neil and Mick Mars. But the group has undergone several lineup changes at various stages of its 40-plus-year career. Granted, half of the band’s lineups consisted of the twice-reunited famous original foursome, with Sixx and Mars always remaining on board […]
John Mellencamp is best known for his rugged heartland rock songs, but he can be found among paintbrushes and canvases in his spare time. For Mellencamp, making music and creating artwork have always gone hand in hand. “There’s nothing closer to heaven than painting,” Mellencamp told The Guardian in 2018. “That’s as close as you get. You’re […]