Rock

A hit song can come from anywhere — and Rick Springfield‘s big moment with “Affair of the Heart” happened in a public restroom. After years of commercial disappointments, the Aussie rocker had finally found major success with 1981’s Working Class Dog, which spawned the No. 1 single “Jessie’s Girl” and notched two additional Top 20 hits. The momentum continued to
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Being a rock star doesn’t come with job security. Many legendary musicians have been fired. As any HR department will tell you, the go-to reason for letting someone go is that they’re “not a good fit.” In rock bands, this is especially true. Sure, there have been instances where a musician’s talent was no longer
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Set to a stinger of a melody that quickly finds a rock n’ roll-inspired groove to get in front of, “Cadillac” from King Falcon isn’t the first fiery melodic rock song to have caught my attention this spring, but it’s one of the few to have been sourced from a purely independent source disinterested in
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Sex Pistols‘ Glen Matlock has said he was “very disappointed” with the Pistol television series. READ MORE: Sex Pistols’ Glen Matlock: “Malcolm McLaren had ideas; we had content” Pistol premiered on Hulu and Disney+ on May 31 last year. It starred Anson Boon as Johnny Rotten, Louis Partridge as Sid Vicious, Jacob Slater as Paul Cook and Christian Lees as Glen
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Mick Mars has found another supporter in his fresh lawsuit against Motley Crue: former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing. The 71-year-old Mars filed suit against Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee and Vince Neil last week, claiming they’re ripping him off financially and trying to fully remove him from the band since he announced his retirement from the road last October, citing
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The Jonas Brothers were the musical guests on Saturday Night Live this weekend (April 8) – watch them play ‘Waffle House’ and ‘Walls’ below. Earlier this year, the band announced that they would be releasing a new Jonas Brothers album. Their latest record, ‘The Album’, will be coming out on May 5, and was preceded by
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Heistheartist’s latest EP Under the Influence of Love (Acoustic Soul) showcases his growth as an artist and songwriter in the Christian music genre. Following the success of his previous releases, “The Book of Mary” and “On God,” Heistheartist delivers a bold and confident statement with this new collection of tracks. SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/heistheartist The EP is
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Maybe Depeche Mode were always destined to assume their final form as a synth duo. Way back in their early days, after they formed at a Basildon school concert in June 1980, they felt a little like a rock band who hadn’t quite completed their electronic evolution, and had been left with vestigial members, guys
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Rush‘s Geddy Lee has announced an official title and release date for his previously teased memoir. My Effin’ Life is due out on Nov. 14. The band tweeted a picture of the book’s front cover — a vintage photo of the prog-rock legend — and added, “More soon…” Lee informally announced his then-untitled autobiography in a September 2021 Instagram post,
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Among these little islands to the north-west of the European mainland, the sea has always claimed a large slice of national mythologies. For hundreds of years England has brandished its thalassic geography as a treatise of power: the scepter’d isle that never never shall be enslaved. But as England now cheerfully hoists itself by its
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