Classic-Rock News Archives

Guitarist Michael "Cub" Koda has been one of the most influential musicians in modern rock - despite the fact that his band, Brownsville Station, only scored on the charts once in 10 years.

What with the mind-altering drugs, devotees of the occult, and all those creative imaginations, classic rock was a great breeding ground for tales that just might be true and thus make for some great ghost stories -- the kind that just beg to be told when you're getting into the Halloween spirit.

Legendary drummer, the critically acclaimed Ginger Baker - who has performed with such supergroups as Cream, Blind Faith, the Graham Bond Organisation and Hawkwind - celebrates the release of his new book, 'Hellraiser' with a signing session at Fopp's Earlham Street store in London's Covent Garden on Friday 30th October 2009.

People live to tell stories. Almost every sentence spoken is part of a story, whether it's what one did that day, relating something that someone else said, or actually making up a fictional story .

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I grew up eating bad cheese. It wasn't cheese, actually, it was "processed cheese food." And then there were those bland, rubbery, generic blocks of unnaturally colored mild cheddar.

A visit with Them Crooked Vultures' Josh Homme and John Paul Jones Interview by Jay Babcock Posted: October 15, 2009 Them Crooked Vultures is a new band comprised of guitarist-vocalist Joshua Homme , bassist John Paul Jones , drummer Dave Grohl and guitarist Alain Johannes , with Jones and Johannes also playing other instruments.

This time a duo releases a song that talks about how when you're near the end and need a friend, you should love one another.

Before Durham's Luego could record and release its full-length debut, Taped-together Stories , frontman Patrick Phelan endured a VH1-worthy scenario: The rest of the band bailed following a 2008 EP, I Know I Know , and a subsequent tour.

The Cowsills, including Susan Cowsill, bottom, in the late 1960s. Few of singer-songwriter Susan Cowsill's New Orleans friends knew of her prior life with popular 1960s singing siblings the Cowsills .

Dayspring Assisted Living Center held a hog roast, cruise-in and rummage sale over the weekend at its facility on Ohio 545 in Mansfield.

John Ford Coley will offer an acoustic concert live at the Struthers Library Theatre, Warren, at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct.

Ever wished you could take what you see in movies and make it real? What if you had a magical movie projector that could do just that? The Hollywood Reporter notes the concept has been launched at Disney, and they've bought in to get the idea underway.

Musicians picked and rosined up their bows at the third annual Stokes County Fiddlers Convention and The Old Timers Cup at the Jomeokee Campground last night.

Jeff "Papa J" Hudson of Garden Grove is the founder of Blues Gone South. His raspy voice makes him sound like he has stories to tell, stories of hard work, dedication - stories that only a blues musician could tell.

After scoring several hits as part of the soft rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley, Dan Seals reinvented himself as a country-pop singer and enjoyed a tremendous run of success during the latter half of the '80s. Born in McCamey, TX, in 1948, his brother was Jim Seals, later of another successful soft rock duo, Seals & Crofts.