Demi Lovato guitarist Nita Strauss said there are no hard feelings between her and former employer Alice Cooper, and she hasn’t ruled out a return to the shock-rocker’s band. “It’s an interesting thing that everyone’s picked up saying it’s a ‘departure’ but I don’t feel, necessarily, that I left,” Strauss told Louder. “I took a step back and […]
A lot has changed since Saturday Night Live’s first episode aired on Oct. 11, 1975. For one thing, the show was then called NBC’s Saturday Night since sports broadcaster Howard Cosell, of all people, had snapped up producer Lorne Michaels’ first choice of name for his mercifully short-lived comedy-variety show on ABC, Howard Cosell’s Saturday […]
The Fixx‘s Shuttered Room was a slow burn to success. The 1982 album included songs like “Stand or Fall” and “Red Skies,” which are now fan favorites and staples of the band’s live set. But MCA Records, the group’s label at the time, didn’t quite know what to make of their latest signing. The band refused to get […]
Sammy Hagar says he wrote a new song called “Thank You” using a guitar lick that Eddie Van Halen showed him in a recent dream. “I shouldn’t be hyping it now,” Hagar tells UCR. “Nobody knows this but Michael Anthony, Jason [Bonham] and Vic [Johnson]. About two months ago, I had this dream and Eddie […]
In early August 2021, it was announced that drummer Charlie Watts, for the first time, would not be participating in the Rolling Stones‘ upcoming tour. “For once my timing has been a little off,” Watts said in a statement at the time. “I am working hard to get fully fit but I have today accepted on […]
R.E.M.‘s debut EP, Chronic Town, landed in stores on Aug. 24, 1982. It’s safe to say music was never the same, although such historic hyperbole felt very far away upon the release of the five-song record. That’s because Chronic Town feels beamed in from another planet — a planet shrouded in murky atmospheres, Southern mysticism and […]
Even though grunge is regarded as the music that brought glam metal’s popularity to an end, Poison‘s Bret Michaels doesn’t hold a grudge toward any of the genre’s artists. “Grunge was great,” the singer declared during a recent interview with AZ Central. “We used Nirvana‘s director, Sam Bayer, on the video to [1993 single] ‘Stand.’ Alice in […]
Steve Perry was still with Journey in 1982, Metallica had just debuted and the Doobie Brothers went on a farewell tour that wouldn’t be their last. Popular songs would soon be dripping with synthesizers and reverb, and some of that had already begun seeping in. By and large, however, rock artists continued to enjoy success in […]
Ozzy Osbourne admitted that one of the songs on his upcoming album Patient Number 9 may be controversial. The song, “One of Those Days,” contains the lyric: “One of those days that I don’t believe in Jesus.” “That’s going to cause shit, I suppose,” the former Black Sabbath singer admitted to Classic Rock magazine. Still, he doesn’t want listeners to get the wrong […]
Elton John previewed “Hold Me Closer,” his new collaborative song with Britney Spears, by singing over the recording outside a restaurant in France. The singer-songwriter posted a video of the performance Tuesday on Instagram. The clip, tagged at La Guerite in Cannes, opens with John introducing the track: “Britney Spears, Elton John — here we go,” […]