Faster Pussycat frontman Taime Downe reflected on the cruise ship death of his fiancee Kimberly Burch in a recent interview with Eddie Trunk, expressing hope that his band’s newly launched tour will prove therapeutic in his grieving process. “It’s a roller coaster,” Downe told Trunk on a May 30 episode of Faction Talk on SiriusXM. “I’m hanging in […]
John Lennon only issued seven solo albums in the 10 years after the Beatles broke up. The posthumously released Milk and Honey and Menlove Ave. made for a total of nine. With such a small sample size, every choice for opening song takes on added significance. As in all things, Lennon’s selections would be deeply […]
ZZ Top confirmed that co-founding drummer Frank Beard has now returned to the band after two months of absence. He’s back in time to take part in the North American dates of their current Elevation tour, alongside Billy Gibbons and Elwood Frances, and set to remain in place until its completion in October, after 52 […]
The Rolling Stones have been making albums longer than some of their fans have been alive. But even for seasoned professionals like them, it’s not always an entirely painless experience. “You always get to a point, when you’re making anything, when you love it, love it, love it and then — ‘Oh, it’s crap.’ It’s that […]
Despite being one of the biggest rock bands of all time, Guns N’ Roses don’t have many albums. Consequently, the list of Guns N’ Roses Album Opening Songs Ranked is small but mighty. Axl Rose and Co. have always known how to make an entrance. On their star-making debut album Appetite for Destruction, they welcomed listeners into […]
John Fogerty said he was once offered the chance to buy back the guitar he played during Creedence Clearwater Revival’s glory days, but refused because of the memories connected with the instrument. But his wife and manager, Julie, bought it anyway and gave it to him as a Christmas present, kick starting a healing process […]
ESPN commentator Pat McAfee wasn’t pleased with John Mellencamp‘s online critique of his mid-game speech to the crowd during game 4 of the NBA finals, telling the rock star to “shut the fuck up.” McAfee, who was a punter for the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts from 2009-2016 and has gone on to become one of sports […]
If there was a golden era for three-disc releases, it was clearly the ’70s. Half of the items in the following list of Top 20 Triple Albums arrived in that decade. Some artists have been more apt to release triple albums: Frank Zappa could almost have his own with highlights like 1979’s Joe’s Garage, 1981’s […]
AC/DC closed out their 2025 North American Power Up tour with a commanding show in front of a packed house of 50,000 fans in Cleveland Wednesday night. Here’s hoping it won’t be the last time they visit us. For much of the past decade, it was quite reasonable to assume we’d never see the legendary […]
An expanded, Super Deluxe Edition of Talking Heads‘ second album, More Songs About Buildings and Food, will include discs of studio outtakes and live recordings from the period. The three-CD and one-Blu-ray set will be available on July 25 and marks the band’s first collaboration with producer Brian Eno, who’d go on to work with the group […]