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Jay-Z Brings Spiritual ‘Reasonable Doubt’ Performance to Yankee Stadium: 8 Best Moments
Jay-Z put on a masterclass show, with appearances from Beyoncé, Blu Ivy and Nas, for day-one fans at the first of three nights at Yankee Stadium.
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See Charli XCX Debut ‘Music, Fashion, Film’ Songs at Brooklyn Gig
Clairo, Kim Petras, and Underscores also joined singer onstage at intimate Music Hall of Williamsburg show
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Vince Gill Calls This Hank Williams Hit One of the Most Beautiful Songs Ever Written
NASHVILLE – CIRCA 1950: Country singer Hank Williams poses for a portrait circa 1950 in Nashville Tennessee. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Vince Gill claims this classic hit by Hank Williams remains one of the most beautiful songs that has ever been written. The post Vince Gill Calls This Hank Williams Hit One of…
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Every Baby Boomer Alive Remembers These 3 Classic Rock Jams From 1972
Candian singer-songwriter Neil Young performs on stage at Hammersmith Odeon, London, 28th March 1976. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images) There isn’t a baby boomer alive that doesn’t remember these classic rock jams from 1972. I bet you still know every word, too. The post Every Baby Boomer Alive Remembers These 3 Classic Rock Jams From…
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The singer Robert Plant knew was out of everyone’s league: “Better than we were”
The article says Robert Plant regarded Steve Marriott as a singer who operated on a level above most of his peers, presenting Marriott as a rare talent who even Led Zeppelin’s frontman felt he could not match. It matters because it reframes Plant not just as a towering vocalist in his own right, but as…
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“We were kinda like the odd man out in the nu metal scene and had to prove we could whip ass”: From hanging out with Lemmy and Willie Nelson to the carnage of Woodstock, how Sevendust’s Lajon Witherspoon became a modern metal icon
This article profiles Lajon Witherspoon, the frontman of American metal band Sevendust, charting his rise to become one of the genre’s most respected vocalists. It matters as a career retrospective marking three decades of the band’s work and Witherspoon’s standing within modern metal, framed around anecdotes such as encounters with Lemmy and Willie Nelson and…
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6 Classic Rock Songs Everyone Knows by Bands That No One Seems To Remember
This light-hearted American Songwriter feature rounds up six classic rock songs that listeners recognise instantly yet often cannot attribute to the correct band. The writer, self-appointed “classic rock person” among their friends, frames the list around the common experience of hearing a familiar radio staple without being able to name who recorded it. – “The…
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CHTHONIC Frontman-Turned-Politician FREDDY LIM: ‘Artists Are Capable Of Doing A Lot Of Things That Politicians Cannot’
Freddy Lim, frontman of the Taiwanese extreme metal band CHTHONIC and now a politician and diplomat, reflected on the relationship between music and political change during an appearance on the Bleeding Metal podcast, recorded at the Tuska festival in Helsinki. Lim argued that artists can achieve things politicians cannot, contending that while political reform is…
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Born in the Motor City 79 Years Ago Today, the Country-Rock Pioneer Who Helped Introduce Roots Music Legends to a New Generation
This article marks the 79th birthday of Jeff Hanna, born in Detroit, Michigan, on 11 July 1947, and celebrates his role as a founding member of the country-rock group the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. It highlights his significance in roots music, particularly through the band’s landmark 1972 album Will the Circle Be Unbroken, which brought…
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The 1972 album Keith Richards never gets tired of hearing: “I still love that”
The article says Keith Richards has remained especially fond of the Rolling Stones’ 1972 album *Exile on Main St.*, describing it as a record he still enjoys hearing years later. It presents that affection as significant because the album is widely seen as one of the band’s defining works, capturing their loose, blues-heavy sound at…