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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 …

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 …

   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 …

This July, Alice Cooper will release, Paranormal, his first solo album since 2011's Welcome 2 My Nightmare, and the 27th studio release of his career. Produced by Bob Ezrin, Paranormal will feature performances by ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and U2's Larry Mullen. Bob is the one who suggested Larry Mullen for the album, and Alice loved the idea saying "that’s a great idea, it’ll change things up so much, just on the basic tracks.”  Alice went on to say that Larry wanted to s …