Before Starship, there was Jefferson Starship, and before Jefferson Starship, there was Jefferson Airplane. Jefferson Starship had their merits. Starship didn’t, but they had We Built This City, a song that purists may consider the final nail in the coffin of rock and roll, but that gave the band more chart success than either of…
Stewart Copeland is the jazz-hating, opera-loving son of a CIA officer who, in 1977, formed one of the seminal bands of the 1970s alongside Sting and Andy Summers. The Police didn’t stick around for long, with tensions between Sting and Copeland eventually leading them to go their separate ways less than 10 years after the…
Rap music has undergone a lot of changes over the last decade, and there is now a new generation of rappers hoping to help carry the genre for another 10 years. Big30 is one of them, and he’s well on his way to becoming a star. While he hasn’t achieved a lot of mainstream success…
There are rock legends and then there are those individuals that are truly the stuff of legend, the ones who are still performing show after show in the hearts of fans, long after they are no longer physically with us. There is little doubt that Ron Bushy, the ever-present drummer for Iron Butterfly, falls into…
The Swedish rock band known as Watain got its start in Uppsala in 1998. Founding members, Erik Danielsson, Hakan Johnson, and Pelle Forsberg earned their fame through their Theistic Satanic views. Their controversial live shows feature dousing their fans with animal blood, as well as performing satanic rituals honoring the devil that included pyrotechnics, candles,…
The only thing super about most supergroups is their title. Bad Company was an exception. Together, Free singer Paul Rodgers, Mott the Hopple guitarist Mick Ralphs, Free drummer Simon Kirke, and King Crimson bassist Boz Burrel formed one of the best British bands to come out of the 1970s. The type of rock they specialized…
From Oslo, Norway, the band known as Satyricon was formerly founded in 1990 as Eczema by its founding members, Vegard “Wargod” Tonsberg Bakke (bassist) and Carl-Michael “Exertum” Eide (drummer). When they started to play black metal music in 1991, the name was changed to Satyricon. Sigurd “Satyr” Wongraven (lead vocals) and Havard “Lemarchand” Jorgensen (lead…
ZZ Top is a rock band that was formed in Houston, Texas, in 1969. They are predominantly known for the blues-rock style of their music, although they also play other rock subgenres, including boogie rock, hard rock, and southern rock. They are also known for their humorous lyrics. The only original member of ZZ Top…
Warren Zevon was an unmistakable talent who possessed an indefinable genius. An excitable boy they all said. Sadly, the greatness of the singer-songwriter was never truly recognized in his own time, mainly of his own doing. Best known for his raucous 1978 anthem “Werewolves of London”, he turned in a brilliant yet tragic career that…