While rock guitar hero worship may have begun its ascendancy with Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, and exploded beneath the fingers of Eddie Van Halen, it was arguably Joe Satriani's 1987 release Surfing with the Alien that represented the…
It’s been a couple of weeks since Dickey Betts died. And if there were a Mount Rushmore for Southern Rock Guitarists, the Allman Brothers Band co-founder’s lean face, narrow eyes, and droopy handlebar moustache would surely be chiseled on…
Martin Kanja, AKA Lord Spikeheart, covers everything from colonialism to his grandmother in music that mixes African culture with metal. He hopes to help more artists like him break through
Organizers at Hard Rock Stadium near Miami have hosted some of the biggest spectacles in American sports in the past five years, including the Super Bowl and college football’s national championship game. Now they want to turn the Miami…
Hudson tells us what made her realize it was time to record her debut album, why acting is so much less scary than making music, and why she wants to play Stevie Nicks one day
Duane Eddy performs on the third day of the 2014 Stagecoach Music Festival at the Empire Polo Field, in Indio, Calif. Eddy, was a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser” and “Peter…
Yelling 'Freebird!' and raising hands in the 'devil horns' sign — why do rock fans do some of the things they do? Alan Cross examines these and other rock traditions.
Isn't it Romantic? The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and conductor Geoffrey Robson closed out their 2023-24 Masterworks season Saturday night at Little Rock's Robinson Center Performance Hall with a perfectly balanced program featuring…
People outside of Australia are still getting the message about how fucked up, wonderful, and significant its largely under rated punk movement was. As with Scotland’s Postcard Records bands, and the groups that came out of New Zealand’s…
Blackmagic Design today announced that the music video for the popular rock band Hitsujibungaku’s latest song "GO!!!" was shot on Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K digital film camera. The director, cinematographer and editor for the project was…
Corinne Bailey Rae (shown at the Rock in Rio Festival in 2022) is among the artists set to perform in Millennium Park as part of the 2024 music series at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago.
Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitarist who began making music in the 1950s, succumbed to his battle with cancer on April 30. The rock n' roll musician was 86.