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Billy Gibbons is getting ready to release his third solo album, which he says will be called Hardwire, in tribute to Joe Hardy, who produced and engineered every ZZ Top and Billy Gibbons album, since Eliminator.  Mr. Hardy passed away earlier this year. According to Gibbons, "I think we're going to call it Hardware, and that's in tribute to the late Joe Hardy, our stalwart engineer for four decades.  Joe recently passed on, but in his wake he left the instruction …

    A few weeks ago, I wrote about Guns N' Roses' confirmation of a new album getting underway.  Well, that hasn't been postponed, per se, as they never shared recording and/or release dates.  However, it looks like it's still a ways off, as the band has confirmed additional shows, for their ongoing "Not In This Lifetime" tour, which began, back in 2016.   While they have been on the road, consistently, since launching the "Not In This Lifetime" tour, GNR ha …

Guns N' Roses' guitarist, Slash, has officially confirmed that a new GNR album is in the works.  While various band members have hinted that they might be planning on recording, Slash made an official announcement, on 101 WRIF, that they would really get to work on it, once they wrap up their current tour.  When asked why he and the others had been so vague, in the past, Slash said “The thing is, we hadn’t really done anything yet, and I don’t like to say anything.  …

50 years ago, this Labor Day weekend, exactly 2 weeks after the original Woodstock music festival, another huge, albeit not as well known music festival occurred in Lewisville, Texas, called the Texas International Pop Festival.  This festival featured performances by Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Santana, Grand Funk Railroad and Chicago (then called Chicago Transit Authority), among others, and was attended by 100,000 music fans. This upcoming labor day weekend, the Texa …

Late this summer, on August 14, "Blinded by the Light" will hit theaters.   A song, originally, written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen, "Blinded by the Light" is best remembered as a hit, covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, in 1977.  However, the "Blinded by the Light" I'm referring to has nothing to do with Manfred Mann's Earth Band, and has a lot more to do with "The Boss."   Blinded by the Light is a new upcoming film, about a young Pakistani immigrant, …

   Want to see Guns N' Roses, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Def Leppard all in 1 weekend?   Well then, you need to block out the weekend of October 11-13, for the first Exit 111 music festival.   To be held at Great Stage Park in Manchester, Tennessee, this 3 day concert will feature a who's who of classic rock and heavy metal.  In addition to the 3 bands mentioned above, who are headlining Exit 111, there will also be performances by Slay …

In 1969, in a small town called White Lake in the Catskill Mountains of New York State, the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair opened with a bluesy folk set by Richie Havens, setting off a 3-day event that would forever change the landscape of rock music and live concerts as we know it. Woodstock set the stage for the mega festivals we know today like Coachella and Bonnaroo, giving a platform to all genres of music for fans around the globe to enjoy in person. And now, nearly half a century after the …

When the Motley Crue biography The Dirt: Confessions of The World's Most Notorious Rock Band was released in 2001, it was widely thought to be unfilmable.  According to Rolling Stone, the book "contains some of the grittiest, raunchiest, supposedly true stories recorded, with scenes depicting the abuse of drugs, alcohol and groupies as the “Shout at the Devil” rockers somehow survived the Eighties and a low commercial period in the Nineties." Who could capture all of that de …

Since David Gilmour joined Pink Floyd in 1967, his guitar work was, to say the least, legendary. From his explosive solos on the  live sides of Ummagumma, to the legendary radio hits Comfortably Numb and Money, few guitar solos in rock are better known. Now, 120 of Gilmour's guitars, including his legendary 1969 Black Fender Stratocaster (so customized by Gilmour that  an entire book was devoted to it) will be auctioned off at Christie's in New York this June.  …

August 16th, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the legendary Woodstock festival. In August of 1969, Woodstock, one of the largest music festivals ever to be held in the United States, made music history. The festival boasted a staggering attendance record, with over 400,000 people attending, and solidified the legacies of the acts who performed, like Jimi Hendrix, Country Joe McDonald, Santana, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, The Who, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, Jefferson A …