A highly sought-after and eye-wateringly expensive Guns N’ Roses album is getting an official vinyl reissue. Live Era ’87-’93, the band’s only official standalone live album, will be re-released as a four-LP set in both black and multi-color dyed vinyl. The album is available to preorder now and will ship on Nov. 21. You can see the full track […]
Any look back at Pink Floyd‘s longest songs ends up as something of a love letter to the lost musical partnership of David Gilmour and Richard Wright, the latter of whom died in 2008. Pink Floyd’s songs tended to become shorter and more novelistic as their erstwhile bandmate Roger Waters‘ influence grew. Earlier, much longer […]
Axl Rose is branching out into a new realm: comic books. The Guns N’ Roses frontman will be the subject of a new, multi-volume graphic novel series titled Axl Rose: Appetite for Destruction. The collaboration between Rose and Sumerian Comics is available to preorder now. Rose created the story along with Sumerian Comics co-founder and president Nathan […]
The B-52’s have been eligible for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for over two decades, but they’ve never been nominated. But as far as Fred Schneider is concerned, it doesn’t matter. “I don’t care anymore,” he recently told Vulture. “We should have been in 20 years ago because if it’s about influencing other […]
Paul McCartney played a show in Santa Barbara, California on Friday night, just a few days before the launch of his North American tour. He played a number of his usual selections, but kicked things off with a Beatles hit he hasn’t played live since 1990: “Help!” Available below is footage from before the concert […]
Members of Kansas reunited during the encore of the band’s show in Bonner Springs, Kansas Friday night. In addition to the current members of the group, Phil Ehart, Richard Williams, Kerry Livgren and Dave Hope also joined in for encore renditions of “Hold On” and “Carry on Wayward Son.” Livgran and Hope are both former members of […]
The following list of the most underrated song by 11 legendary hair metal bands proves that the genre was more than hits and filler. Hair metal – or glam-metal, or pop-metal, or whatever you want to call it — dominated the rock world in the mid-to-late ’80s thanks to a combination of pop-savvy hooks, good-time […]
In 2022, Bryan Ferry was asked by The Guardian about which covers of Roxy Music songs he enjoys the most. “Grace Jones’ version of ‘Love Is the Drug,’ is very cool,” he replied. “She worked with Sly and Robbie at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, where we recorded some of Avalon. It grooves much better […]
As you’ll see in the following ranked list of Robert Plant solo albums, crafting a solo career has been something of a quest for Led Zeppelin‘s former frontman. There have been dizzying summits, disappointing blind alleys, thrilling moments of homecoming and surprising times when he’s backtracked. We’re examining it all, from Plant’s earliest albums of […]
In the fall of 1990, Nirvana were one of the fastest-rising young rock bands in the Northwest — but they were still waiting for the drummer that would transform them into the group that bassist Krist Novoselic would later describe as “a beast that walked the earth.” That drummer was Dave Grohl — at 21, […]