53 Years Ago Today – The Velvet Underground Perform First Ever Show (Check Out Classic Live Video ’66)

53 Years Ago Today – The Velvet Underground Perform First Ever Show (Check Out Classic Live Video ’66)

53 years ago today (12/11/65), at Summit High School Auditorium in Summit, NJ, the original three members (Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison) along with then-newcomer Maureen Tucker, performed their first show with the name “The Velvet Underground.” This was triple bill with The Myddle Class as headliners and The…
45 Years Ago Today CBGB Opens (Watch The Ramones Live ’74)

45 Years Ago Today CBGB Opens (Watch The Ramones Live ’74)

45 years ago today (12/10/73), vaulted music venue CBGB opened in 1973. The club whose letters was for for Country, BlueGrass, and Blues instead laid the foundation for a whole other scene of music, as punk and new wave bands like Ramones, Television, Patti Smith Group, Blondie, and Talking Heads…
Epicenter Festival 2019: Foo Fighters, Tool, Rob Zombie, Judas Priest Top Lineup At Rockingham Festival Grounds In North Carolina May 10, 11 & 12, 2019

Epicenter Festival 2019: Foo Fighters, Tool, Rob Zombie, Judas Priest Top Lineup At Rockingham Festival Grounds In North Carolina May 10, 11 & 12, 2019

Epicenter Festival – a new 3-day destination music experience from premier independent U.S. music festival producer Danny Wimmer Presents – brings a massive music lineup to its 2019 debut, with over 65 music artists performing on four stages, led by Foo Fighters, Tool and Korn. The inaugural festival takes place in the heart of the Mid-Atlantic region, at the newly created Rockingham Festival […]

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Warren Haynes Christmas Jam Night 2 –  Dave Grohl, Eric Church, Gov’t Mule, Jim James, Joe Bonamassa Give Asheville A Ride (PHOTOS)

Warren Haynes Christmas Jam Night 2 – Dave Grohl, Eric Church, Gov’t Mule, Jim James, Joe Bonamassa Give Asheville A Ride (PHOTOS)

The 30th Annual Warren Haynes Christmas Jam took December 7-8 at U.S. Cellular Center in Asheville, NC. Night two featured Dave Grol and Friends Playing “Play”, Eric Church, Gov’t Mule, Jim James and Joe Bonamassa. Photos by Brad Kutz

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Lambchop Announces New LP ‘This (is what I wanted to tell you)’

Lambchop Announces New LP ‘This (is what I wanted to tell you)’

When we asked Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner for a sentence about the first single off his new album, he replied in typical enigmatic fashion: “Picture yourself on a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies… This is not that.” “The December-ish You” is from Lambchop’s disarming but intimate confessional called This (is what […]

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Warren Haynes Christmas Jam – Dark Side of the Mule, Jim James, Grace Potter, Jamey Johnson, Mike Gordon Lead Friday Night (PHOTOS)

Warren Haynes Christmas Jam – Dark Side of the Mule, Jim James, Grace Potter, Jamey Johnson, Mike Gordon Lead Friday Night (PHOTOS)

The 30th Annual Warren Haynes Christmas Jam took December 7-8 at U.S. Cellular Center in Asheville, NC. Night one featured Dark Side of the Mule, Jim James Grace Potter, Jamey Johnson, Marco Benevento and Mike Gordon to rev up night one on Friday. Highlights included Potter being joined by saxophonist Ron Holloway and Jim James […]

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VIDEO PREMIERE: Bob Sumner Crafts Twangy Americana With “Ticket To Ride”

VIDEO PREMIERE: Bob Sumner Crafts Twangy Americana With “Ticket To Ride”

“I’m kind of a junkie for sad songs and ballads,” says Bob Sumner, the younger half of Vancouver-based Americana outfit The Sumner Brothers. “As a teenager most of my friends were into hip-hop, but I felt pretty out of place rolling around suburban White Rock, British Columbia, pumping gangster rap.” Sitting in his room with […]

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Lynyrd Skynyrd Brings Last Of The Survivors Farewell Tour To Biloxi (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)

Lynyrd Skynyrd Brings Last Of The Survivors Farewell Tour To Biloxi (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)

If you grew up in the south in the 1970’s, and beyond, the words Lynyrd Skynyrd were as familiar to you as pickup trucks, fishing and Sunday dinner. It was inevitable that a Road Home poster would hang in your room and Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd would make many spins around the turntable. And you usually […]

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Lindsey Buckingham Perseveres Strong Going From Sold Out Arenas To Sold Out Theatres (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)

Lindsey Buckingham Perseveres Strong Going From Sold Out Arenas To Sold Out Theatres (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)

It wasn’t a sold-out arena this time around for the Lindsey Buckingham, the Grammy-award winning and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. However, it was indeed a sold-out theater in historic downtown Boston, that drew in his fans that craved to see and hear him perform hits and deep cuts from both his tumultuous […]

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75 Years Ago Today -The Late Jim Morrison Was Born (Watch “When The Music’s Over” Live ’68)

75 Years Ago Today -The Late Jim Morrison Was Born (Watch “When The Music’s Over” Live ’68)

75 years ago today (12/8/43), the late Jim Morrison of The Doors was born. Any rock fan knows his story, but The Doors legacy continues to spawn new fans over the course of their seven years and six albums together with Morrison. Watch The Doors perform “When The Music’s Over”…

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