Tom Shipley of Brewer & Shipley, the duo best known for the 1971 Top 10 hit “One Toke Over the Line,” has died of unspecified causes at the age of 84. The New York Times confirmed the news with Shipley’s son Marc, who said his father died on Aug. 24 at a hospital in Columbia, […]
The following list of the most played live song by 40 classic rock legends often mirrors their biggest and most enduring hits — but not always. It stands to reason that once an artist scores a blockbuster, career-defining hit, it will follow them for the rest of their lives. Just take a look at Bon Jovi, whose chart-topping Slippery When Wet […]
Mark Volman, a cofounder of the Turtles and the cosinger on several of their hit songs, has died. He was 78. Over his five-decade career, Volman also performed with fellow Turtles cofounder and singer Howard Kaylan as Flo & Eddie, who released albums as a duo and also performed on songs by Bruce Springsteen, T. […]
Ozzy Osbourne will receive another all-star tribute during this Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards, with Aerosmith‘s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, Extreme‘s Nuno Bettencourt and punk star Yungblud honoring the recently departed metal legend. The four musicians will join forces for a “once-in-a-lifetime performance,” honoring the Prince of Darkness with a medley of his greatest hits […]
Boz Scaggs will release a new album, his first in seven years, on Oct. 17. Detour follows the Grammy-nominated Out of the Blues, and, like that album and its immediate predecessors, will feature songs from the past, with a focus on personal jazz favorites and music from the Great American Songbook. You can hear the first […]
Jack Osbourne reflected on the death of his father Ozzy Osbourne in a new YouTube video, detailing the moment he heard the news and expressing gratitude for the outpouring of love and well wishes his family received in the wake of Ozzy’s passing. Ozzy died on July 22 at the age of 76, less than three weeks after […]
A 50th anniversary edition of Little Feat‘s fifth album, 1975’s The Last Record Album, will be released on Oct. 24. The four-CD Deluxe Edition of the set includes a remastered version of the original album, discs of rarities and previously unreleased songs, and a live show recorded just weeks after the album’s release in October […]
Radiohead has announced a series of European tour dates for November and December, marking their first shows in more than seven years. The art-rock giants will set up shop in various cities across the continent, playing four to five consecutive shows in each location. The tour begins on Nov. 4 in Madrid, Spain, then heads to Bologna, Italy; London; […]
Six weeks after Ozzy Osbourne’s death, Roger Waters has criticized the heavy metal legend for bringing “hundreds of years” of “idiocy and nonsense” into the culture, prompting an angry reply from Osbourne’s son Jack. While speaking to the Independent Ink podcast in the video embedded below, the Pink Floyd legend spoke about how pop culture figures […]
A look at the most skipped songs from 40 of classic rock’s most famous albums makes one thing crystal clear: The music world is dominated by individual songs now. Streaming services such as Spotify have made it easier than ever to cherry-pick your favorite tracks and ignore everything else, either by assembling playlists that exclude […]