The best-selling rock album of 2024 is 47 years old. In a year dominated by pop, country and hip-hop, Fleetwood Mac‘s 1977 masterpiece Rumours was the highest-charting rock album on Billboard’s 2024 year-end chart, landing at No. 34, just one spot ahead of Elton John‘s 2017 greatest hits collection Diamonds. Just 29 of the Top […]
Zakir Hussain, a virtuoso tabla player who collaborated with the likes of George Harrison, Van Morrison and the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart, died on Sunday at the age of 73. In a statement, Hussain family noted his cause of death was idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. “His prolific work as a teacher, mentor and educator has left […]
For all of their promise, the Beatles‘ journey as solo acts was dotted with potholes. George Harrison came roaring into the ’70s, quickly releasing two chart-topping post-breakup albums and three Top singles – topped by the No. 1 smash “My Sweet Lord.” Ringo Starr struck platinum with 1973’s Ringo and reeled off four straight Top […]
Ted Nugent knows who to blame for Damn Yankees‘ failed attempt at a third album – and he’s not afraid to call them out. After a pair of successful LPs in the early ‘90s, the supergroup – featuring Nugent, Styx’s Tommy Shaw and Night Ranger’s Jack Blades – was poised to record a third album. […]
Steve Stevens revealed he’d had artistic, spiritual and physical reasons for refusing to join David Lee Roth‘s solo band after the singer left Van Halen in 1985. Stevens, Billy Idol‘s longtime guitarist, had already built up a friendship with Eddie Van Halen, which was one argument against taking part in Roth’s project. In a recent interview […]
Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones and Metallica ranked among the top 10 worldwide touring acts of 2024, according to a new Pollstar report. Springsteen and his E Street Band were rock’s biggest earners, landing at No. 5 overall with a gross of $251 million from 44 shows. (Pollstar tabulated this data for all worldwide shows played between Nov. 16, […]
U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. has revealed a learning disability that causes him to struggle with counting. “I’ve always known that there’s something not particularly right with the way that I deal with numbers. I’m numerically challenged,” the rocker explained during a conversation with The Times. “And I realized recently that I have dyscalculia, which […]
Former Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson‘s art-rock group Envy of None has released a video for their latest track. “Under the Stars” offers good news for those who were worried about his recent reluctance to play solos. This is the second advance single from Envy of None’s upcoming second album, though no release details have been […]
Ted Nugent has responded to Tommy Shaw’s recent comments regarding the end of their supergroup, Damn Yankees. “It was one of those things that wasn’t meant to be forever,” Shaw explained during an interview with UCR. “It’s something that we had a great time doing. We made two records and you could kind of feel […]
When a band as massive and long-running as AC/DC goes on tour, they inevitably have to leave a lot of songs on the cutting-room floor. That’s not quite as big a problem for the Aussie rockers as other bands of similar stature, because fans continue to embrace timeless classics such as “Hells Bells,” “Back in Black,” […]