Category: History

When Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Pat Carney played their first concert on March 20, 2002, they looked out on an audience that had, as Auerbach’s dad described

“Do you wanna get rocked?“ That’s the surprising question that kicks off Def Leppard’s 1992 album Adrenalize. It’s surprising because the band’s belabored, five-year gap since Hysteria (which was

The Beat’s most enduring song came not from a place of inspiration, but immaturity. Dave Wakeling, the group’s singer and guitarist, wrote “Save It for Later” before

Almost every band that achieves superstardom has a definable turning point in its career, where it goes from being just another band to a phenomenon. For Kings of

So much of the immediate praise surrounding the Rolling Stones’ hodge-podge Tattoo You album was colored by the era. Same with “Hang Fire.” The band

By early 1972, ZZ Top had already become a great live band. With their second album, Rio Grande Mud, they began to learn how to

The pre-bearded ZZ Top’s second album, Rio Grande Mud, arrived on April 4, 1972, at the beginning of their climb to global success. Already, they

How Alice in Chains Have Endured Since Layne Staley’s Death

Graham Nash recalls that the pairing of himself and David Crosby back in the early ’70s, outside Crosby, Stills & Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young,