Category: Ultimate Classic Rock

The following post contains SPOILERS for The Iron Claw — but really they’re just the actual historical events detailed in the movie. Pro wrestling is at…

Kiss turned heads when they unveiled their avatars earlier this month. Now the group has announced when the virtual band will debut. It was Dec.…

You’ve memorized the song, but can you remember the group? It’s sometimes harder than you might think. After all, we don’t have Casey Kasem around…

A painting created by all four members of the Beatles is expected to sell for up to $600,000 at auction in February. The abstract artwork…

“Touch of Grey” was the most commercially successful song of the Grateful Dead’s career, but their longtime promoter admits there was a downside. “They never…

The on-again off-again child pornography lawsuit against Nirvana has been revived once more. The issue goes back to the band’s legendary 1991 album Nevermind. Its…

John Scher, longtime promoter for the Grateful Dead, has revealed the “profound” statement Bob Dylan said to him following Jerry Garcia’s funeral. Scher was among…

Motley Crue have canceled their planned “Crue Year’s Eve” 2023 concert scheduled to take place at Acrisure Arena in Thousand Palms, California, this New Year’s Eve, Dec.…

As the decades pass, it’s become pretty clear that people will always be hearing the hits of REO Speedwagon somewhere. In 2023, Dolly Parton helped…

Every songwriter approaches his or her craft differently, and there are, ostensibly, as many ways to write a song as there are songs in existence.…

By waiting until January 1984 to issue their 1984 LP, Van Halen broke an impressive one-album-a-year streak that dated back to 1978. They made up…

In 1989, a unique set of circumstances led Jack Blades to work with Motley Crue. Blades’ own band, Night Ranger, had enjoyed massive success earlier…

You’ll often hear musicians talk about the stories their songs tell. Like any good tale, you don’t necessarily have to know when they happened –…

Paul Stanley recalled the time he dabbled with a different mask before returning to his classic Starchild makeup after less than a month. The Kiss co-founder is known…

Torben Ulrich, father of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, has died at the age of 95. In a tribute posted to Instagram, Lars paid tribute to…

Rock bands tend to peak early in their life cycles, riding the wave of youthful inspiration. It’s hard enough to keep a project going for…

Those in whom we invest so much of our emotional capital have the greatest capacity to disappoint us. Imagine being a Billy Joel fan in…

Dee Snider didn’t mince words when asked about the financial difficulties facing musicians today. The Twisted Sister frontman was a guest on The Jeremy White…

Cinema is a perpetual state of change. Everything about movies is in flux: What they look like, who makes them, who is in them, how…

If the bank-breaking ticket prices, endless stream of headlines and Time Person of the Year award didn’t already make it glaringly obvious, 2023 belonged to Taylor Swift. From a…