Genesis had three sometimes overlapping eras, with career-defining and then career-turning tenures by Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett and Phil Collins. Even the lone recording with their third frontman, 1997’s Calling All Stations, couldn’t escape the shadow of the trio’s absence. Their album opening songs reflect this diversity of approach and personality. After a pushy producer […]
Bruce Springsteen revealed he was not fully happy with his blockbuster 1984 album Born in the U.S.A., claiming it wasn’t the record he’d planned on making. The Boss reflected on the 30-million-selling album in a new interview with Rolling Stone to promote his upcoming Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set, which comes out Friday. In the box set liner […]
Summer vacation is in full swing, but if you grew up in the ’70s or ’80s, it probably looked a little different than it does today. Okay — a lot different. The obvious difference? No phones. And if you see any film footage from back then, it’s almost eerie to watch people not staring at […]
45 years after its release, the Blues Brothers movie is getting a comic book sequel. Z2 has partnered with the families of Blues Brothers stars Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi to create a graphic novel named The Blues Brothers: The Escape of Joliet Jake. Deluxe editions of the book will also come with an exclusive, previously […]
Neil Young and his new band the Chrome Hearts kicked off their 2025 Love Earth Tour on Wednesday night in Rattvik, Sweden. The set list, which you can view in full below, featured a number of songs Young has not performed live for many years. He played a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song called “Looking Forward” […]
Even casual fans are familiar with the Beatles‘ album-opening songs. Three of them went to No. 1, either in the U.K. or America, including 1964’s “A Hard Day’s Night,” 1965’s “Help!” and 1969’s “Come Together.” “I Saw Her Standing There” hit No. 1 in three other countries in 1963. Tracks that were never issued as […]
Veteran session bassist and 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Carol Kaye said she won’t be attending this year’s ceremony, claiming that it doesn’t reflect “the work that studio musicians do and did in the golden era of the 1960s.” Kaye was inducted into the Hall this year via the Musical Excellence category. The 90-year-old […]
Bruce Springsteen isn’t ready to leave the vaults. He’s already talking about a follow-up just over a week before the arrival of Tracks II: The Lost Albums, a new seven-disc, 83-song box. “Tracks III, that is finished,” Springsteen tells The New York Times. He said the next set will return to sessions dating from his 1973 […]
Early REO Speedwagon vocalist Terry Luttrell was involved in a scary automobile accident after participating in this weekend’s reunion show at a venue operated by the University of Illinois in Champaign, where the band got their start. He said he fell asleep on Sunday night and crashed on Interstate 57. “It just happened,” Luttrell told […]
Sting and Andy Summers of the Police have reunited for the first time in nearly two decades, performing together on a new cover of their former band’s 1983 song “Murder by Numbers.” Originally available as a CD and cassette bonus track on their album Synchronicity, the already jazzy “Murder by Numbers” has now been given […]