ZZ Top News

Today's birthdays: PBS newscaster Jim Lehrer is 79. TV personality David Hartman is 78.

May 19: PBS newscaster Jim Lehrer is 79. TV personality David Hartman is 78. Actor James Fox is 74.

ZZ Top Replays, Song Parodies And More. 05/15/13. 6:00am Show opening bits and songs included: ''The Scott Salem Assertiveness Training CD'' commercial parody, Weezer performing ''Hash Pipe'' live in the Howard Stern Show studio.

JD & The Straight Shot gives ARTISTdirect an exclusive peek into the band's recent rehearsal at Sear Sound Studios in NYC! Watch JD & Straight Shot's bluesy/down-home rendition of "Pink Cadillac" by Bruce Springsteen, here: http://bit.ly/12mUuJm. Founded by frontman Jim Dolan, JD & The Straight released their fourth studio album Midnight Run last ... (more)

From "Tush" and "La Grange" to "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Cheap Sunglasses," the Texas-born trio has been a hallmark of good times.

ZZ Top's first 10 albums will be reissued in a boxed set titled ZZ Top: The Complete Studio Albums on Warner Bros Records.

ZZ Top at the EKU Center for the Arts in Richmond: On paper, it was a dream combination: a ZZ Top concert on Cinco de Mayo.

There are few rock bands as well branded as Houston, Texas' ZZ Top. It's all in the beards - and the hits - a list just as long as those epic beards.

Producer Rick Rubin had a simple directive for ZZ Top as the band began work on its first album in nine years.

Sunday was also about giving credence to the forbears of pysch-rock. Roky Erikson put on an energetic show to a loving and enthusiastic audience.

In the credits for every song on the new ZZ Top album "La Futura" - listed before everything, in fact, save for the title and running time - are these words: "Performed by Billy F. Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard." If you are even a casual fan of this veteran Texas trio, the repetition of such info might seem an epic overstatement of the obvious.

ZZ Top is taking their show on the road. The Texas trio will be performing Thursday night at the First Council Casino Hotel in Newkirk, Oklahoma to launch their 2013 tour.

He's not the most famous Rolling Stone, but he represents what many fans think was the band's best period, to which his excellent guitar skills and musical taste contributed mightily.

ZZ Top have a new box set coming out in June, and this time they're getting it right.

A new box set collecting all of the studio albums ZZ Top released during its two decades of existence will be released on June 10.

The 22-member board is comprised of musicians, recording engineers, producers, music journalists, and corporate partners from around the country and will serve as a "brain trust" of visionaries who support the growth and development of the Les Paul Experience at the Waukesha County Museum.

Onstage, a lean figure in an impressively tailored suit , wide-brimmed hat, and flowing, rabbinical beard known the world over grins beneath his Ray-Bans, squeezing barbecue blues runs from what looks like a Silly Putty impression of a Telecaster, stalking the stage front in that Texas gunslinger manner, barking like a 90-year-old cotton picker at ... (more)

The 6th Austin Psych Fest begins Friday at Carson Creek Ranch located near downtown this weekend .

"J.D. And the Straight Shot have made themselves a well known fixture on the music festival circuit, playing their own unique mix of southern blues rock and Louisiana swamp music to the delight of an ever growing fan base" - The Examiner Featured in Billboard Magazine: http://bit.ly/BillboardJD JD & The Straight Shot will open for rock legend ZZ ... (more)

The museum recently named an advisory board with some big name musicians. Steve Miller, of the Steve Miller Band, has been named co-chair along with Les Paul's son Rusty Paul.