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It was 35 years ago Saturday tonight (January 23rd, 1986) that the first inductees entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in a ceremony held at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria. The inaugural class...

Despite the original Beach Boys 50th anniversary in 2012 ending in disarray and bad blood -- Al Jardine says the group is eying the possibilities for its 60th. Mike Love, who controls the license to t...

The Pearl Jam tribute band formerly known as Pearl Jamm -- spelled with two m's -- has changed their named to Legal Jam after the Seattle-based band issued a cease and desist. The real Pearl Jam a...

Gene Simmons touched upon the importance of Jews in modern culture during a new chat with American Songwriter. Simmons, the son of a Nazi concentration camp survivor, whose father served on the weeken...

Poison's Bret Michaels, Billy Idol, Tommy Shaw from Styx, the Allman Betts Band, and Wynona Judd, among others will be on hand Saturday, January 23rd for the Big Love Benefit Concert to raise mone...

The Rolling Stones will introduce their first official candy bars next week, according to NME. The two selections, a milk chocolate bar called "Brown Sugar," and a dark chocolate bar called "Cherry Re...

Rather than driving them apart, Sammy Hagar told us that recording remotely with the Circle during quarantine actually brought the members of the band closer together. Newly released is the group'...

Bruce Springsteen opened last night's (January 20th) Celebrating America Presidential gala event, which capped the inaugural celebrations for President Joe Biden. Springsteen, in front of the Linc...

Ron McGovney, Metallica's first bassist, took to Twitter to post the band's original business card. He captioned the photo, "Original Metallica business card. The phone number was the one I ha...

It was 57 years ago today -- January 20th, 1964 -- that arguably the most important rock album of all time was released, the Beatles' Meet The Beatles. Although, it wasn't the first Beatles re...