Category: Classic Rock

Jerry Garcia Music Arts Releases New Studio Outtakes Album

The Jerry Garcia Music Arts label will release a new album titled “Front Street Outtakes” on January 5. The album tracks are composed of studio outtakes from a 1994 recording session featuring Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead and Sanjay Mishra, an Indian American guitarist-composer. The collaboration showcases a new direction the ever-creative Garcia was […]

Ron Blair The Sully Band and More Slated for Livestream Benefit

The Sully Band, recently named “Best Live Performer” at the 2020 San Diego Music Awards, will stage a live, all-star, virtual fundraising concert on Thursday, January 14 at 7:30 pm at the Belly Up Tavern in San Diego. The free concert will benefit the Challenged Athletes Foundation and can be viewed at bellyuponline.com/sully. Well-known comedian […]

Queen and Sarah Brightman Slated to Perform “Endless Rain”

Kohaku Uta Gassen, broadcast on Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, is the annual music program in Japan which continues to be the most popular TV program each year for the past 70 years. With an unprecedented viewership of over 40%, it has long been viewed as the true barometer of status for domestic artists with an […]

Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton Get Animated for Christmas

A photo of country music icon Willie Nelson performing outdoors at a concert. He is wearing a black cowboy hat.

On Wednesday, December 23rd, Country icons Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson took an animated Christmas-themed trip through Fort Worth, Texas, in the new animated music video for “Pretty Paper.” Nelson originally wrote the song back in 1963, after the star saw a disabled man selling pencils and wrapping paper outside of a department store. In […]

Country and Bluegrass Guitarist Tony Rice Passes Away at 69

Tony Rice was an American guitarist and bluegrass musician. He was an influential acoustic guitar player in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, newgrass and flattop acoustic jazz. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2013. Rice’s music spans the range of acoustic from traditional bluegrass to jazz-influenced New Acoustic music to songwriter-oriented […]

The Band’s Classic Third Album, ‘Stage Fright’ Turns 50

By the time The Band was ready to record their third album, Stage Fright, in 1970, they were riding high from having released back-to-back albums that solidified them as one of the most exciting and revolutionary groups of the late 1960s. Seemingly coming from nowhere and everywhere in ’68, their landmark debut album, Music From […]

Ringo Starr Releases “Here’s To The Nights” From Forthcoming EP ‘Zoom In’

As this crazy year comes to a close, Ringo is offering a song of peace, love and friendship – “Here’s To The Nights” available now as a single. Written by Diane Warren, Ringo is joined by his friends, some longtime and some new, including: Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh, Corinne Bailey Rae, Eric Burton (Black Pumas), […]

Led Zeppelin and Stern Pinball Announce New Rock and Roll Pinball Machines

Stern Pinball, Inc., a global lifestyle brand based on the iconic and outrageously fun modern American game of pinball, announced today a new line of pinball machines based on the legendary rock band, Led Zeppelin and its music. The Led Zeppelin pinball machines will be available in Pro, Premium, and Limited Edition models. Formed in […]

Rob Thomas, Johnny Rzeznik and Many More Stars Team Up for Virtual Holiday Benefit

On Friday, December 18th, WCBS-FM’s Scott Shannon in the Morning with Patty Steele will broadcast their final ‘Big Show’ of the year, VIRTUALLY, to entertain the patients and raise money for Blythedale Children’s Hospital’s Traumatic Brain Injury program. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the beloved in-person, holiday tradition is being held on-air only to protect […]