Classic Rock is eternal and it is now! The 2008 Now Classic Rock features 20 of the best Classic cuts of the century. From Queen to Heart, from Boston to Kansas, from Kiss to Cheap Trick, the greats of rock bounce through this CD digging way back with ‘Fire’ from the Jimi Hendrix [...]
As the title implies, BK3 is guitarist Bruce Kulick’s third solo album, and it’s a dramatic step forward for the former KISS/current Grand Funk Railroad member.
Not that there’s anything wrong with either Audio Dog or Transformer, Bruce’s previous solo efforts. Both are very solid representations of his capabilities, but in some ways each [...]
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Ronnie Wood has gone back into rehab for an eighth stint, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The troubled Rolling Stones guitarist today arrived at a clinic in south London in a bid to conquer the alcohol addiction that has plagued him for years.
Wood, 62, checked himself into rehab after months of pleading [...]
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Dial in classic rock radio anywhere in the world and you won’t wait long to hear the distinctive timbre of Randy Bachman’s guitar.
In the ’60’s, Bachman emerged from Winnipeg, that frigid Canadian prairie town, to blaze a trail to the top of the American pop charts. As guitarist for the Guess Who, Bachman co-wrote [...]
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Waiting for Axl Rose is a state most Guns N’ Roses fans are well accustomed to by now. It famously took 15 years for Rose to release Chinese Democracy. Then almost two more years for Axl and his hired Guns to take it on a tour which is currently crossing Canada.
Still, the mood was getting tumultuous [...]
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Following Dave Matthews‘ duet with Neil Young at the ‘Hope for Haiti‘ benefit (which, if you haven’t heard, you can purchase at iTunes…for the cause), the enigmatic singer-songwriter has announced a new Dave Matthews Band EP to further raise funds for Haiti’s earthquake relief efforts. DMB fans of the world, rejoice: the EP, entitled [...]
I never met Kyle Woodring. I first became aware of him a few years ago when I was working on a book entitled The Grand Delusion: The Unauthorized True Story of Styx. I was trying to get as many interviews with people close to the members of Styx as I could, and Kyle was [...]
The last few months have been an exciting time for Gentle Giant fans. After years of relative inactivity, punctuated by sporadic releases of varying quality, over the course of the last few months Gentle Giant has released a large slice of its catalog in digital formats for the first time, and now those same [...]
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Though there have been many posthumous releases from Jimi Hendrix’s archives since his tragic death, the recently-announced ‘Valleys of Neptune’ isn’t meant to be a “lost” album. Rather, it’s a look at the creative period in Hendrix’s life between the 1968 release of ‘Electric Ladyland’ and his legendary appearance at Woodstock the following summer.
“In [...]
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Sly Stone — the reclusive and notoriously quirky ringleader of legendary funk act Sly & the Family Stone — has filed a $50 million lawsuit against his former business manager and associates, according to media reports. Among the charges are fraud, breach of contract, unjust enrichment and converting and misappropriating the artist’s royalties and [...]
