On May 22, “outlaw country” icon Steve Earle & the Dukes will release a new album, Ghosts of West Virginia. Announced on Thursday, the LP will…
Back in December, Deep Purple lifted the lid on plans for a new album, with vocalist Ian Gillan saying that he and his band mates had…
The past year or so has been full of activity for Def Leppard. The English hard-rock band was enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of…
Sometime last week, John Oates felt some discomfort under his rib cage … and it turned out be severe enough to send the musician to the…
Los Angeles-based band Chicano Batman will release a new album, Invisible People, the follow-up to 2017’s Freedom is Free and the group’s fourth full-length to date,…
Riffin’ with Trace Foster, Guitar Tech to the Stars (Joe Perry, Geezer Butler, Angus Young and More)
Behind the scenes of every great guitar player is a great guitar tech. They are a guitarist’s safety net and…
Top 11
Top 11 Songs About Friendship
Top 11 Songs About Friendship — a list that barely scratches the surface. If you…
Top 11 Classic Songs Featured in Recent Television Commercials
Whether you watch an actual TV or subscribe to one or more streaming platforms, the…
Musicians Recall ‘The First Time I Heard Janis Joplin’
Janis Joplin was called “the greatest white urban blues and soul singer of her generation”…
Behind the Curtain: Touring the Marshall Amplification Factory and Lunch with Jim Marshall in 1976
There was a movie released in the summer of 2019 titled Yesterday, depicting a world…
True Music
Janis Joplin was called “the greatest white urban blues and soul singer of her generation” by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which inducted her in 1995. Joplin’s powerful, gritty vocals made songs like “Piece of My Heart,” “Ball and Chain,” “Summertime” and “Me and Bobby McGee” uniquely her own. Joplin, who died in 1970 at age 27 of an accidental drug overdose, burst on the music scene in 1966 as vocalist of San Francisco’s Big Brother and the Holding Company. The band’s manager, Chet Helms, encouraged its members to make Joplin their lead singer. Joplin’s triumphant performances at…
