Category: Ultimate Classic Rock

2004 was an interesting and intriguing year for music. Some of rock’s biggest bands moved forward by looking back. Others celebrated new beginnings — sometimes…

Although it seemed that the six-year legal battle over Prince’s estate had finally been settled in 2022, the issue returned to court this week. An…

The Black Crowes will release a new album, Happiness Bastards, on March 15. This is their first album of all original material since 2009’s Before the…

Led Zeppelin’s eponymous debut is an album full of firsts. Released in the U.K. on Jan. 12, 1969, Led Zeppelin may not match the historical stature…

Tool kicked off their winter tour with Elder in continued support of 2019’s Fear Inoculum with an 11-song show Wednesday night at Baltimore’s CFG Bank Arena. One…

Roger Daltrey joked that his knees were sore after 24 years of begging bands to play his cancer charity shows free of charge. The Who…

The winds of change were blowing by 1989 (no, not that wind), and it was evident all across the rock music spectrum. Big-haired, sex-obsessed rockers…

Get ready to catch up with a lot of your favorite characters at the movies this year. Beginning with January 12th’s musical re-imagining of Mean…

Bruce Dickinson recalled making a “gobby” jibe about Iron Maiden being better than Metallica as he tried to persuade Steve Harris that he should rejoin…

Red Hot Chili Peppers didn’t think much of Chad Smith when he auditioned for the band in 1988. At the time, the group was in…

Alex Lifeson has revealed how his recent gigs with Geddy Lee provided “closure.” In December the guitarist made appearances with his Rush bandmate in London…

Selena Gomez has been cast as Linda Ronstadt in an upcoming biopic. Fans had begun suspecting the casting after Gomez posted a photo on her…

Rod Stewart has rarely rested since his breakout performance on Jeff Beck‘s 1968 debut solo album, Truth. Within three years he’d join Faces, go solo and have…

1974 was quite a year for movies. Several of the most famous films of all time were released; pictures that remain widely viewed even to…

Former Pearl Jam drummer Dave Abbruzzese recalled the dilemma he faced after starting work with Guns N’ Roses, three years after he’d been fired from…

In 1989, rock had no bigger rivalry than Vince Neil versus Axl Rose. Strangely enough, the conflict originated with two totally different people. Less than…

Tommy Thayer discussed the development of Kiss’ future avatar plans, and said he was considering options for continuing to play music after the band’s final tour…

Of all the confusion that surrounded the Beatles’ early U.S. releases, perhaps nothing compares with the story of their first American album. Introducing … the…

There was a time that a portion of the population sincerely feared that society as they knew it would come crashing down for good when…

Brian McConnachie, the comedy writer best known for his work on Saturday Night Live, SCTV and National Lampoon, has died at the age of 81.…