Metallica fans push both Ride the Lightning and Metallica to Billboard's Top Album Sales chart — despite dropping 30% in ...

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Blondie, Fleetwood Mac, and ABBA are all among the very best and most iconic female-fronted rock bands of all time.

The pride of East Central Illinois, Head East is one of those bands that make rock lovers go, "Wow, that's who sings that song?" In this case, it would be the 1975 classic rock favorite "Never Been ...

The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025, a new single-year record up 9.6% from 2024, which held the ...

Age is just a number when you're a rock star! "There's a saying in the music business: You don't retire from it, it retires you," Gary Rossington, the founding guitarist of Lynyrd Skynyrd, said in ...

The 1970s was a decade of massive commercial peaks where bands could sell millions of records without ever achieving the 'cool' status required for long-term critical immortality. While groups like ...

Donnie Biggins, owner of Robert’s Westside in Forest Park, is doing what major ticketing companies and music venues won’t – give every dollar made from all ticket sales to performing artists. Biggins ...

More than 30 years later, saying that you saw the heavily mythologised Kyuss “back in the day” gives you street cred in this scene that cannot be purchased or transacted through any other band. I am ...

Some bands are easy to love. Others? Not so much. The ones that divide opinion tend to have qualities that inspire both devotion and derision: soaring choruses that some hear as anthemic, others as ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. — A local venue is hosting multiple brand-new bands for a unique night of music. Hard Rock Live will host an all-ages rock show in partnership with the Rock & Roll Institute to ...