Peter Criss did not go into Let Me Rock You with a great deal of momentum – and this third solo album didn’t exactly help
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An assembly of people gathered in January 1972 in the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles for a service of sorts – though not

Joe Jackson’s detour into the ’40s sounds of Louis Jordan and Cab Calloway on 1981’s Jumpin’ Jive should have made clear that he was more

40 Years Ago: Why Did Cher’s ‘I Paralyze’ Flop?

Even though the Beatles would record most of their classic songs at Abbey Road Studios, their first visit to the facility was far from perfect. On June 6,

Chicago’s remaining core lineup has spent quite a few years repudiating the dramatic musical shift that began with their 16th album. Most of the blame

Maybe the most famous piece of trivia about Queen guitarist Brian May is that he built the electric guitar he has used for most of

In 1992, Love/Hate were facing the same problem as many other rising rock bands. They’d been discovered playing high-energy shows in Los Angeles, and their

Conventional wisdom points to Private Audition as the point where Heart started to break — at least for a little while. But a case can

Though it’s often overshadowed by larger events of the era, America’s first rock festival – the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival – was