Top 11 Band Name Origin Stories “If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.” – Woody Allen Pink Floyd In 1963, future Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason went through band names that included the Meggadeaths, the Screaming Abdabs, Leonard’s […]
Nancy Wilson and Liv Warfield of Roadcase Royale (Photo: Jeremy Danger) In the past year or so, there has been much talk in the press regarding the breakup of Heart. Unfortunately, when you live your life in the public eye, even the slightest event gets put under the microscope of popular culture. What happened between […]
8AM October 31st, Halloween … The massive Norwegian Jade ship is docked in the port of Miami and the silence is deafening. There’ll be a new kind of “deafening” soon: the noisy “Rock & Roll All Nite and party every day” kind, as in a few hours passengers from 37 countries will embark on KISS […]
Few bands are making as much noise lately as Greta Van Fleet. The young rockers are preparing to release their debut full-length, Anthem of the Peaceful Army, this Friday (and a big tour in 2019), and are riding the wave of a string of smash-hit radio singles and high-profile festival gigs, amassing colossal buzz along […]
Good times, bad times — you know Led Zeppelin had their share (sorry), but in looking back on the band’s legendary career it’s impossible to overlook the good times. This is a larger-than-life musical group in the truest sense of the phrase, and in October a special book will be released to commemorate their 50th […]
Robert Plant is a living legend of the highest degree when it comes to rock and roll. For years, he helped Led Zeppelin earn a mythical status among their peers as the vibrant vocal force behind their powerful music — but he’s done so much more than that. After Zeppelin’s eventual dissolution, Plant has remained […]
“Why are a ‘wise man’ and a ‘wiseguy’ opposites?” – George Carlin “Right Place, Wrong Time” by Dr. John “Right Place, Wrong Time” was Dr. John‘s biggest hit, cracking the Top 10 in 1973. It was the first single from his In the Right Place LP. Dr. John described how the song was written in […]
In 2015, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page discussed the band’s then-upcoming reissue campaign for each of the timeless albums in their legendary career — and now that campaign has reached its end, in conjunction with the band’s 50th anniversary activities. After massive reissues of their early records, Led Zeppelin will reissue the soundtrack album for […]
This Friday, the Juke Box Heroes Tour will officially begin when Foreigner, Whitesnake and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening start a summer trek that will wrap up on August 1 in Irvine, California. In promotion of the tour, Live Nation rolled out an amusing video of Whitesnake’s David Coverdale and Mick Jones of Foreigner chatting […]
The fury and passion of John “Bonzo” Bonham behind the kit for Led Zeppelin is the stuff of legend — and a new video of an eight-year-old girl named Yoyoka Soma is going viral for her uncanny knack at channeling him on the drum set. As part of a youth drumming competition called Hit Like […]
