For 20 years, Ben Weinman served as the lead guitarist and primary songwriter of metalcore band The Dillinger Escape Plan. The band went their separate ways in 2017, but Weinman is still keeping busy playing with Suicidal Tendencies, managing the two times Grammy award-winner Kimbra, judging the shredding talents of contestants on Shredders of Metal,…
Wes Scantlin may be best known for his meltdowns, his tax evasion woes, and his legal troubles, but these days, the singer is clean, sober, and back doing what he does best with his band of 30 years, Puddle of Mudd. Truth be told, the reception to the band’s latest single, Just Tell Me, hasn’t…
Earl Slick is one of rock’s most renowned guitarists. Over a career that spans five decades, he’s performed with everyone from David Bowie to John Lennon, Carl Perkins to The Cure. This year, he proved he’s more than just a sideman on Fistful of Devils, his first solo album in over 18 years. Find out…
As a member of The Small Faces, Faces, and The Who, drummer Kenney Jones played a part in three of the biggest and most loved UK bands of the ’60s and ’70s. His time with The Who may have divided opinion (particularly within the band itself), but that had less to do with his consummate…
Currently, Rihanna sits second, behind Oprah Winfrey as the richest female entertainer. Her current net worth stands at $1.7 billion, much of which comes from the value of Fenty Beauty. However, we cannot forget that she has been churning out top hits for nearly two decades now. She is a music icon who has numerous…
Henry John Deutschedorf Jr., later known as John Denver, was born on December 31, 1943, in Roswell, New Mexico. His grandmother bought him his first guitar when he was a teenager. Denver went to Texas Technical college but dropped out, pursuing a music career in New York City. There, he became part of the Chad…
The mid-’90s was a superb era for music, but not every band was meant to be. After some early success, members of the hardcore punk band Arcane were feeling limited by their genre and needed a change. Moving in a more metal direction seemed less restrictive and so the American metalcore band Dillinger Escape Plan…
Whitney Houston was a singer and actress who was born in New Jersey on August 9, 1963. She was from a talented family, as her mother is singer Cissy Houston and her cousins are Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick, both also singers. Houston began her career in 1977, although she did not sign to…
Although titled as Hall & Oates, the duo of Daryl Hall and John Oates prefers to be referred to as Daryl Hall & John Oates. They first formed their rock band in 1970, each of them coming from bands of their own that first met at a band competition that was being held at the…