Over the past few years, cartoony deck building games have been very popular. Most games stick pretty closely to the kill the arrow formula, but I don’t think I’ve seen one who’s tried to change things just as drastically as battle bands. The premise is simple: you play as theRead More →
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! When there is negativity in the world, well, crush it with positivity, harmony and creativity. It’s the lasting life lesson, in essence, of Oak Ridge Boys’ William Lee Golden, as he and his four sons, The Goldens, prepare to release a newRead More →
Although there are movies like West Side Story and Tick, Tick… Boom! which have music as their theme and motives, there are others which have little to do with tunes but everything to do with how beneficial a good melody can be. Andrew Garfield in Tick Tick… Boom! Of allRead More →
There was a time when all this rock n roll lark was a game for young people, but over the decades it has become a free game for people of all ages. Sure, there are masses of great young bands – pop culture will always be a form of adolescence,Read More →
One of the most anticipated touring couples of 2022 saw Dirty Honey and Mammoth WVH hit the road together. It sounds like a perfect fit, but the two acts revealed that it wasn’t exactly easy to find other new rock ‘n’ roll bands to tour with. Dirty Honey singer MarcRead More →
An artist is eligible for the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 25 years after releasing their first recording, which means any band that released their first album during or before 1997 is eligible. So, following this week’s announcement that Judas Priest and Rage against the machine have been nominated,Read More →
By Lydia Svyatoslavsky Bay City News Foundation Since its creation in 1993, Noise Pop has defended independent musicians of all persuasions. The annual Noise Pop music and arts festival, once a single night at The Independent (then The Kennel Club), has since become a Bay Area mainstay, featuring an eclecticRead More →
In the world of rock and metal, there is no shortage of Led Zeppelin imitators. For most musicians, channeling the rock gods is a right of passage, but you run a risk when using this sound. Concrete example ? Kingdom Come, whose cheeky mirroring of Zeppelin sounds led them toRead More →
As long as there has been a punk scene, its inhabitants argued over which city had invented it – New York or London? Truth be told, it wasn’t because the first real punk band in history was the Stooges of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Which would make the true birthplace ofRead More →
While Colorado’s high altitude can intimidate any novice baker, it hasn’t held back Denver’s baking scene in any way. Each district is decorated with multiple micro-bakeries using their crafts to meet the needs of those around them. These small but mighty forces are merging through the work of micro-baker andRead More →
by the staff of the best classical groups Steven Tyler (right) with Aerosmith’s Joe Perry at the People’s Choice Awards Steven Tyler is highlighting REELZ on Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 8 p.m. ET / PT, as part of the network’s new music documentary series, The singers. In this episode,Read More →
Mammoth WVH and Dirty Honey are just two of a number of younger rock bands rising on the scene right now, despite everything “dead rock” believers may think. Mammoth WVH did a big tour with Guns N ‘Roses earlier this year, and Dirty Honey was with The Black Crowes. NowRead More →
Holidays are about tradition, and after a season without concerts due to the pandemic, this is the year to return to an old favorite or start a new tradition. While some bands – including The Blenders and George Winston – have opted out of this one, this season’s Twin CitiesRead More →
by the staff of the best classical groups Mick Rock took the photo that appeared on Queen’s 3rd album, 1974’s Sheer Heart Attack Mick Rock, the British photographer whose memorable images captured music legends such as David Bowie, Lou Reed and Queen gave him the nickname “The Man Who ShotRead More →
The general sound, aesthetics and attitude of rock music have changed a lot over the decades. The blues is where it all started, and it eventually evolved into rockabilly and regular rock’n’roll in the 1950s. From the mid to late 1960s there was psychedelic rock and then some. artists beganRead More →
Sebastian Bach has his work cut out for his Slave of grinding 30th anniversary tour. His former band’s second album, Skid Row, topped the charts, is packed with dizzying vocal tracks and screeches – no small feat to duplicate on stage every night. But the 53-year-old singer tells UCR itRead More →
As krautrock took hold of the traditionally-bound German music scene in the late 1960s and early 1990s, a similar psychedelic revolution was taking place in Japan – diverse but complementary, utopian in spirit, but finding this feeling of wonder in legendary pastoral pasts as well as legendary futures. This urgeRead More →