If Eddie Van Halen’s health hadn’t deteriorated, then he — along with singers Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth — would have reunited in a “kitchen-sink tour,” Eddie’s son Wolfgang said. “If only things had been better,” Wolfgang told Howard Stern on his SiriusXM radio show (via Rolling Stone), “it would have been amazing.” Eddie Van Halen died […]
It’s been more than three years since Bleachers released their sophomore album Gone Now, and the band’s ushering in its latest era with style: enlisting none other than Bruce Springsteen on new single “Chinatown” and filming a video with the Boss. “’chinatown’ starts in NYC and travels to new jersey. that pull back to the place i […]
When Perry Farrell went in for spinal surgery in September, he didn’t realize that it would involve the removal of a very important organ. “They had to remove my voice box and put it on a table. That was daunting,” the Jane’s Addiction frontman said in an interview with Classic Rock magazine. Farrell was undergoing […]
In a video filled with poignant home movie clips, Wolfgang Van Halen honors his dad with a song called “Distance.” It’s a tribute written while Eddie Van Halen was battling cancer, “imagining what my life would be without him and how terribly I’d miss him,” as Wolfgang explained in a statement. Eddie Van Halen died […]
Eight months into the global pandemic, people are starting to feel that fatigue. But it looks like Jack Black has plenty of excess energy and humor. The musician and actor, suited up in a tiny red swimsuit, with a hose spewing water on him (courtesy of “hose water technician”), got wet and went to “werk” […]
Of the many things Jason Lytle hadn’t counted on doing in this bizarre year, talking about an album of his that turns 20 was certainly one of them. But here we are, discussing Grandaddy’s second album, The Sophtware Slump, one of the most acclaimed albums of 2000 and to most of the band’s fans, their […]
In March, Austin’s SXSW festival, a mainstay of the city’s musical life for 34 years, canceled their live events. Chris “Frenchie” Smith, co-owner of the Bubble recording studio and guitarist for Austin rock band Sixteen Deluxe described the moment he heard the news: “I’ve lived in Austin for thirty years, and South by Southwest getting […]
As part of our 35th anniversary, we’re naming the most influential artists of the past 35 years. Today, we’re at #21. From Atlanta, Georgia, here is OutKast. CREDIT: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images The South had something to say long before OutKast brought rap listeners to the corner of Headland and Delowe. Eventually, Andre 3000 and Big […]
Yesterday, Metallica treated fans to the All Within My Helping Hands benefit concert and auction. As with most events in 2020, the set was virtual. The setlist consisted of stripped down versions of Metallica originals “Blackened,” “Creeping Death,” “The Unforgiven,” “Now That We’re Dead,” “Nothing Else Matters” and “All Within My Hands,” as well as covers of Deep Purple’s “When A Blind Man […]
This was meant to be a very different year for Pinkshift. The Baltimore pop-punk band were set to embark on a short March tour, their first as a four-piece, but the pandemic upended their plans. Then a silver lining emerged when their song, “I’m Gonna Tell My Therapist On You,” went viral upon its late […]