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35 Years Ago: The Rolling Stones' 'Some Girls' Album Released

Jeff Giles — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:16:20 +0000

Pinned in by disco on one side and punk on the other, stuck in a creative rut that led some critics to proclaim they were yesterday's news and facing the loss of guitarist Keith Richards to an extended prison sentence, the Rolling Stones entered 1978 in need of a rebound. And they got it with 'Some Girls.'

'Drunk History': Comedy Central Show to Feature Kristen Wiig, Jack Black and Many More

Kevin Fitzpatrick — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:55:26 +0000

The moment we heard Comedy Central would take Will Ferrell's Funny Or Die web series 'Drunk History' to TV, we knew we'd be in for a cavalcade of celebrity guest stars, but perhaps not this many. The network has officially set a July 9 premiere for the web-adapted reenactment series, amid a mammoth list of guest stars that includes everyone from 'SNL' vet Kristen Wiig to Winona Ryder and 'The Internship''s Owen Wilson, and that's just to start.

Massive Supply of Classic Atari Games to Be Excavated From Landfill

Emerald Catron — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:01:24 +0000

Legend has it that 30 years ago Atari buried a massive cache of video game cartridges in a landfill in New Mexico. Specifically, they buried tons and tons of copies of the failed 'E.T.' video game, an Atari non-classic that nearly sunk the gaming industry. Now a film crew has been given six months to search the massive 100 acre landfill to find the motherlode of lost games and confirm that the story is really true.

35 Years Ago: Foghat's 'Stone Blue' Released

Eduardo Rivadavia — Thu, 30 May 2013 15:00:17 +0000

By the time they went in to record their seventh studio album, Foghat had already forged a very successful career by melding blues and rock. They continued that winning streak by releasing 'Stone Blue' in May of 1978, but the album also heralded the musical changes that would eventually lead to the band's commercial undoing.

30 Years Ago: Metal Has Coming Out Party at California's US Festival

Chad Childers — Thu, 30 May 2013 13:30:29 +0000

Metal's roots may have come from the late '60s and '70s, but it can be argued that the genre's real coming out party happened May 29, 1983 at the US Festival in San Bernardino, Calif. The music weekend offered a wide array of musical options, with each day catered to a specific sound, but it was the Heavy Metal Day on May 29, 1983, that showed just how popular that metal had become.

Students Find World War II Hiding Spot in Their Attic

Chris Illuminati — Wed, 29 May 2013 18:29:53 +0000

It’s every child’s dream to stumble upon a hidden treasure in their very own home. Think how many hours of youth are spent knocking on hollow walls, digging in the backyard and exploring crawl spaces in the hopes of finding something, anything, of value. Eight university students did a little exploring in their rented house [...]

French Woman Returns Lost Dog Tags to WWII Veteran

Emerald Catron — Wed, 29 May 2013 11:20:18 +0000

It’s nice to know not everyone just gets bills and postcards from embarrassing radio stations for their former roommates. Sometimes people get the surprise of a lifetime. Irving Mann, a 88-year-old World War II veteran living in Rochester, NY, felt incredulous towards an email he received from a woman in France, who said she had [...]

25 Years Ago: Monsters of Rock Tour Kicks Off

Eduardo Rivadavia — Tue, 28 May 2013 11:15:16 +0000

It’s been a quarter of a century since one of the 80s’ landmark hard rock concert tours began thundering its way across America. Launched in May of 1988, the Monsters of Rock tour brought together some of the greatest hard rock and heavy metal bands of that era for a day-long rock and roll celebration. [...]

10 Years Ago: Led Zeppelin's 'How the West Was Won' Album Released

Michael Gallucci — Mon, 27 May 2013 17:00:57 +0000

Forget ‘The Song Remains the Same.’ Led Zeppelin’s 1976 live album/soundtrack is bloated, boring and filled with zero musical tension. The best Led Zeppelin live album available (at least legally) is ‘How the West Was Won,’ the three-record set culled from two concerts the world’s biggest rock band performed in California in June of 1972. It was released ten years ago on May 27, 2003.

25 Years Ago: Judas Priest's 'Ram It Down' Album Released

Eduardo Rivadavia — Sun, 19 May 2013 20:39:20 +0000

When Judas Priest released their 11th album, ‘Ram It Down,’ 25 years ago today, few people outside of the band’s inner circle had an inkling that the storied British heavy-metal institution was standing at a crossroads. The band’s previous record, 1986’s ‘Turbo,’ was as successful as it was divisive, simultaneously broadening Judas Priest’s audience and [...]

20 Years Ago: Kiss Releases 'Alive III'

Matthew Wilkening — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:55:39 +0000

The non-makeup version of Kiss got their one and only shot at strutting their stuff on a live album with the release of 1993′s ‘Alive III.’ Of course, you can’t hear greasepaint on an audio recording. So the most important changes found on the long-awaited follow up to the band’s two iconic ’70s live albums [...]

Rod Stewart and Ron Wood Ran from the Plaster Casters

Dave Lifton — Sun, 19 May 2013 11:01:04 +0000

Regardless of what one thinks of his sense of humor, it's undeniable that Howard Stern has an uncanny knack for getting his guests to open up about some of their most private details. On Monday (May 13), Rod Stewart talked about how close he and Ron Wood came to having casts made of their genitalia by the infamous Plaster Casters.

38 Years Ago: Alice Cooper Stages 'Welcome to My Nightmare' Tour

Sterling Whitaker — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:40:05 +0000

Kiss recently revealed that the staging for their upcoming tour will feature an enormous, fireball-spewing spider. And while the stage set is brand new, the idea is not -- in fact, David Bowie's 1987 Glass Spider tour featured a huge spider set, and more than a decade before that, original shock rocker Alice Cooper used an oversized arachnid as part of his 1975 tour.

45 Years Ago: Frank Zappa Releases 'Lumpy Gravy'

Ryan Reed — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:40:26 +0000

Frank Zappa is often regarded as one of the most brilliant, idiosyncratic musicians in rock music. But, looking back at his eclectic, monstrous body of work as a composer, guitarist, vocalist, and bandleader, Zappa really wasn't a "rock" musician. That fact is cemented on 'Lumpy Gravy,' Zappa's first official solo album, which was released 45 years ago today (May 13, 1968).

21 Years Ago: Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert Dazzles London

Eduardo Rivadavia — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:00:44 +0000

The death of Queen singer Freddie Mercury due to AIDS-related complications on Nov. 24, 1991, left his legions of fans and fellow members of rock’s ruling aristocracy thoroughly shell-shocked. But over the ensuing months, the surviving members of Queen put all of their considerable resources towards organizing a massive concert at London’s Wembley Arena that [...]

20 Years Ago: Aerosmith Release 'Get A Grip'

Annie Zaleski — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:02:51 +0000

By the time 1993 rolled around, the members of Aerosmith were rock kingpins once more, buoyed by the multi-platinum success of 1987's 'Permanent Vacation' and 1989's 'Pump.' The band's seemingly unstoppable momentum continued unabated with 'Get A Grip,' which was released on April 20, 1993.

32 Years Ago: Ex-Yes and Zeppelin Members Form Supergroup XYZ

Sterling Whitaker — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:10:21 +0000

By 1981, two of the most successful and influential British rock groups of the '70s -- Led Zeppelin and Yes -- had come to an end, and the members of each band were all looking for new opportunities. In April 1981, former Yes drummer Alan White and bassist Chris Squire got together with Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page for a proposed supergroup called XYZ -- which could have also included Robert Plant, but never quite got off the ground.

If Stuff From the '90s Was Made Today

Emerald Catron — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:14:18 +0000

If we’re going to wax all nostalgic about things, let’s not even compare the way things used to be to the way things are now. Let’s instead lament how HORRIBLE it would be if things from the past were invented today. They would not be nearly as good. Although we absolutely would watch Lil Wayne [...]

20 Years Ago – David Lee Roth Busted for Marijuana Possession

Jeff Giles — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:21:22 +0000

These days, he’s back on top — and back with the band that made him famous — but things were very different for Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth in the early ’90s. In fact, on April 16, 1993, Roth reached what might have been the nadir of his time away from the band: getting [...]

25 Years Ago: The Scorpions' 'Savage Amusement' Released

Eduardo Rivadavia — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:23:19 +0000

It was 25 years ago today — April 16 — that Germany’s favorite hard rock sons, the Scorpions, lost their venom with the release of 1988′s disappointing ‘Savage Amusement’ album. Until then, Hannover’s finest had enjoyed a remarkable run of success since the start of the decade, going toe-to-toe with America’s biggest hard rock contenders [...]