Eddie Van Halen was a musical innovator, and he respected similar creative minds, hence why he loved this band.

Sometimes it is necessary for a rock band to abandon their original genre and incorporate new elements to help further their success. The music industry has seen artists like Ronnie James Dio leave ...

You are likely already familiar with the dynasties that have dominated the Billboard pop charts. There is Michael Jackson’s Thriller, which landed seven singles in the Top 10, or Pink Floyd’s Dark ...

With the Beatles a thing of the past and the counterculture revolution aging into different forms of expression, rock music in the 1970s evolved into an even more sophisticated and album-oriented art ...

A groundbreaking audio engineer, he provided the large-scale systems that brought tours by the Who and the Grateful Dead to life. By Alex Williams Bob Heil’s career as a groundbreaking sound engineer ...

Some parts of United States history sound more like a fever dream Simpsons episode than real life, including the time rock music lovers called into a radio station to help create a “sound torture” ...

It makes perfect sense that veteran Mexican singer Pepe Aguilar would release the most thoughtful and ambitious album of his career during a tumultuous time in his life. Art has the capricious ...

Developing a definitive “best of all time” list requires a densely thorough thought process, one which must take into account both subjective and objective angles when constructing a list of this type ...

Progressive rock definitely shone its brightest in the 1970s and 1980s. However, a few progressive rock albums from the 1990s stand out as some of the finest the genre has to offer. Let’s revisit a ...

Shinedown, a mainstream rock band with more than 20 years of history, has announced a show at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. The Oct. 10 concert will mark Shinedown’s “foray into country music,” ...

Roxy Music’s Siren turns 50. Released in 1975, the album’s sleek art-rock style, iconic cover featuring Jerry Hall, and hit single Love Is The Drug cemented its place in rock history.