When Vinny Appice played his first show with Black Sabbath on Aug. 31, 1980, at Honolulu’s Aloha Stadium, the 22-year-old drummer brought a steady hand and calming presence to the beleaguered metal veterans. They’d already endured a tumultuous, albeit successful, year to that point. After years of increasingly drug-addled dysfunction and dwindling album sales, Black […]
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, the upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic starring Jeremy Allen White, is set to be released later this year. But on Friday, the film was premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, resulting in the first critic reviews of the highly-anticipated release. Most of the reviews can be described as positive, […]
A previously unseen live video of John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band performing “Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)” from 1972 has been released. The clip was unveiled on the 53rd anniversary of the couple’s famous One to One Concerts at Madison Square Garden. It premiered on the same date and time […]
The line between country and rock has long been flexible. If you consider, for example, the catalogs of artists like Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Eagles, the Grateful Dead, the Flying Burrito Brothers or the Byrds, to name a few, you’ll find that they were as comfortable pulling influences from Hank Williams as they were Chuck Berry. […]
When Oasis unexpectedly reunited in 2024, one of the biggest questions the Gallagher brothers posed – or perhaps it was a challenge – to American audiences was whether they loved them all along. Which, in all honesty, is fair. Following the band’s roaring start following two, in Liam Gallagher’s words, “biblical” albums that require little […]
Neil Young has shared a new song, “Big Crime,” in opposition to President Donald Trump’s recent deployment of the National Guard and ICE agents in Washington, D.C. President Trump announced the deployment decision earlier this month, a move purportedly intended to aid local law enforcement in controlling crime. According to reporting by The Hill, since then nearly […]
John Fogerty finds it pretty funny that President Trump doesn’t seem to get the irony of playing “Fortunate Son” at his political events. In a new interview with Vulture, Fogerty was asked what he thinks his most misunderstood song is. His answer was “Fortunate Son,” which, he explained, is often assumed to be something it’s […]
If you grew up in the ’70s and ’80s, there’s a good chance that you had at least one Fisher-Price toy sitting on the living room floor, waiting to trip your dad. But these weren’t just toys. Fisher-Price had a knack for shrinking the world down to kid size. “Mooo!”: The Sounds and Magic of […]
The grunge era was nearing its dawn when Pearl Jam formed from the ashes of Seattle band Mother Love Bone, whose singer died of a heroin overdose shortly before their debut album was to be released. Taking a chance on an untried singer from the San Diego area, the group rebranded with Eddie Vedder writing all of the […]
If your ZZ Top vinyl collection has seen better days, there’s some good news. UCR has a chance for you to make an upgrade with some choice slabs of wax. Rhino’s High Fidelity series rolls onward with a new ZZ Top box set, From the Top: 1979-1990. Limited to 3,000 copies, it features five albums, […]