Fall: A chill in the air, long shadows across dying grass, the smell of wood smoke on the breeze. These days bring up moments of introspection. They also bring visions of songwriters reflecting on lost loves and broken hearts covered over with scar tissue and the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien. There’s no perfect formula for […]
Foo Fighters pulled off an incredible feat on Sept. 3, delivering an event for the ages at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert in London that honored their late drummer. Now, the band – and, more specifically, its leader Dave Grohl – face an even bigger challenge: finding a way to meet or exceed London’s triumph at […]
A new version of the classic Guns N’ Roses song “November Rain” will be included on the recently announced Use Your Illusion box set. The new rendition features a 50-piece orchestra, arranged and conducted by Christopher Lennertz. The composer has a long resume across film, television and video games. He’s a two-time Emmy nominee thanks […]
Peter Frampton is preparing for the end of his touring career. He’ll perform a series of concerts in the U.K. and Europe in November that are rescheduled dates from 2020. In a new interview with Classic Rock (via Guitar.com), the guitarist revealed that he’ll perform these upcoming shows seated, due to the progression of his […]
Peter Gabriel became fascinated with found sounds while recording his fourth album at a home studio being overtaken by dry rot. New Fairlight synthesizer technology allowed him to capture, process, reuse and loop these elements to create some of his most intriguing solo music beds so far. Nevertheless, deep down Gabriel was often still talking […]
Learning how to play guitar can be daunting. But with Fret Zealot, it doesn’t have to be. Fret Zealot is the guitar instruction tool that blows traditional guitar lessons out of the water. And it’ll have you shredding guitar in no time. Based on a state-of-the-art LED addition for your guitar, Fret Zealot comes with […]
The Stadium Tour, featuring headliners Motley Crue and Def Leppard, earned $173.5 million this summer. That number comes courtesy of Billboard, who noted that the trek sold approximately 1.3 million tickets across 36 dates. The tour, which also featured Poison, Joan Jett and Classless Act, averaged 37,520 tickets sold per night. On four different occasions […]
There were many Frank Zappas: guitar virtuoso, studio tinkerer, writer of raunchy rock songs. But at his core, he was a legitimate composer, with ideas often too massive for a typical band format. Fittingly, Zappa made his final formal stage appearance as a conductor, leading the 25-piece Ensemble Modern during a performance in September 1992. By […]
Playing good music is often the antidote to getting through a long workday. Another option is writing a song about the workday itself. Still, the average workday for a rock star isn’t quite the same as it is for normal people, but that doesn’t mean they don’t know what it feels like to be stuck on […]
Cameron Crowe’s Singles wasn’t popular enough to be an unambiguous inspiration for the TV mega-hit Friends. But, looking back, the pieces are there. The 20-something leads of the 1992 film, Crowe’s follow-up to 1989’s Say Anything, all live in the same quirkily set-dressed building, hang out at the same hip coffee shop (where at least one of the […]