Category Archives: Classic Hits Music News

Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready looked back at the band's ore-fame musical influences, citing how punk, rock, and metal formed the group's distinctive sound. McCready told Guitar-World, "I h...

Metallica has announced a new upcoming podcast, simply titled The Metallica Podcast. The band shared the news on social media yesterday (Thursday, August 5th) writing, "We're starting with eight e...

It was 55 years ago Sunday (August 8th, 1966), that the Beatles released their groundbreaking seventh album Revolver. What sets the album apart from its predecessors is that aside from a brief nine da...

A legion of Styx fans have started an online Change.org petition urging the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to finally induct the band. Styx has been eligible for induction into the Rock Hall since 1997, a...

Billy Joel returned to the concert stage on Wednesday night (August 5th) with his first concert since the pandemic hit, rocking Boston's Fenway Park. Highlights includes such rarities as "A Room O...

The Rolling Stones have individually broken their silence on social media over drummer Charlie Watts sitting out of the band's fall tour dues to an unspecified illness. Keith Richards' longtim...

Out today (August 6th) is George Harrison's All Things Must Pass '50th Anniversary Edition' in a variety of formats. The famed 1970 triple album has been issued as a five-LP or triple-disc...

Images from Chris Cornell's last photoshoot will be auctioned off today (August 5th) as a pair of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Photographer Randall Slavin took the portraits just before the Soundgarden...

The Black Sabbath reissue series rolls on with the deluxe, expanded version of 1976's Technical Ecstasy set for release on October 1st. The collection will be available as four-CD and five-LP vers...

It was 45 years ago tonight (August 5th, 1976) that the Beach Boys' NBC prime time special The Beach Boys: It's O.K. premiered. The show, which was produced by Saturday Night Live's execut...