This is the beginning Wikipedia’s profile of Wilco: Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by...
Category - Rock
To be perfectly honest, the stereotypical guitar hero — the flamboyant virtuoso with superhuman skills — is a bit long in the tooth. They were a...
Lots of great writing has been done about Freeport, New York’s Lou Reed in the day since his death. The Chicago Tribune equates Reed’s importance...
The nominees for the 29th class of The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame were released today. More than 600 voters will select the inductees, who will enshrined at...
The Beach Boys‘ Shut Down, in honor of what is happening in D.C. Also check out the Flogging Molly’s Don’t Shut ‘Em Down.
I will let This Day in Music trace the barest outline of the extraordinary career of drummer Earl Palmer, who died at age 64 on this day in 2008: Worked with...
The influential band from Athens, Georgia was active from the 1980s until 2011. Here is the beginning of its profile at AllMusic: R.E.M. marked the point when...
ZZ Top was offered $1 million apiece by Gillette to shave their beards for a television commercial in 1984. The good news is that both lead guitarist Billy...
Bill Haley & His Comets’ Rock Around the Clock was the number one song for virtually the entire summer of 1955.
I don’t know much about Widespread Panic, other than they come from the same school of music — and are associated with — Phish and other...
