King Ultramega have released a gripping version of Chris Cornell’s “Dead Wishes featuring Brann Dailor of Mastodon. You can listen to the track below. For the past year, the all-star collective, helmed by Mark Menghi of Metal Allegiance, have been sharing a series of reimagined versions of songs from across Cornell’s career, drawing on his […]
“Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world…” — so says the Journey song. But Steve Perry wasn’t really talking about the country kid who knew how to catch a greased pig and muck out a horse stall before the rest of America had tuned into David Hartman and Joan Lunden talking about Prince Charles […]
When Muddy Waters moved to Chicago in 1943, it didn’t take him terribly long to find his footing in the local music community. “There was quite a few people around singing the blues, but most of them was singing all sad blues,” fellow bluesman Willie Dixon later said of the scene (via the 1987 book […]
Take a walk down memory lane with the following photo gallery of 20 rock and metal stars in 1986 vs. now. The ’80s were a period of radical change in hard rock and metal, and 1986 was no exception. As the decade entered its second half, young and hungry artists staked their claim for greatness while the genre’s elder […]
Grand Funk Railroad has added summer concert dates to their current Still Shinin’ On tour. The new shows, which expand the band’s run through the end of summer, come with the news that the band’s singer since 2000, Max Carl, is retiring from the group. In a statement that was released with the new tour dates, the […]
After Yes completed their 1975 tour in support of the Relayer album, the individual members decided it was time for a break. Naturally, though the progressive rock legends were putting their main project on pause, some time away merely meant they had time to focus on crafting their own solo albums. For vocalist Jon Anderson, […]
Metallica will release a limited-edition deluxe box set of their 1997 album ReLoad on June 26, marking the record’s upcoming 30th anniversary next year. ReLoad (Remastered) will include previously unreleased material, including demos, rough mixes, videos, live recordings and more. The set is now available for preorder. READ MORE: Top 100 Rock Songs of All Time […]
Eagles were approaching an end of an era as their popularity was continuing to build. 1975’s One of These Nights changed everything for the California group in a number of ways. The band’s fourth studio record was released in June of that year and just a month later, it was already at the top of […]
Wolfgang Van Halen‘s Mammoth has announced new summer tour dates. The new dates support the band’s latest album, The End, released in 2025. Van Halen’s third Mammoth album, like its predecessors, was recorded solely by the singer and guitarist, who also played bass, drums and piano on the LP. READ MORE: Top 100 Rock Songs of All Time On […]
Bruce Springsteen offered a “prayer of thanks” for Donald Trump at the beginning of his show in Austin on Sunday night. The legendary rocker – who has been embroiled in a war of words with the President for years – offered a moment of civility by acknowledging the shooting at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, […]