With the enormous exception of N.W.A, this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony was all about honoring guitar groups that reached the zenith of their fame around the time of Jimmy Carter’s inauguration. Chicago, Cheap Trick, the Steve Miller Band and Deep Purple have all been off the… Source: RollingStone Link: N.W.A, Cheap […]
Hours after Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band canceled their Greensboro, North Carolina concert Sunday to protest the state’s controversial, discriminatory “bathroom bill,” guitarist Steven “Little Stevie” Van Zandt defended Springsteen’s decision while backstage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony Friday. “We just felt the issue was just too important,”… Source: RollingStone Link: Steven […]
Cheap Trick are in the midst of a late-career renaissance, culminating in their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction on Friday night. The band will play 150 live dates this year in support of its new LP, Bang, Zoom, Crazy … Hello – some as part of a co-headlining… Source: RollingStone Link: Read Cheap […]
Chicago became one of the more controversial groups in this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when Peter Cetera, the band’s co-founder and primary vocalist, decided to skip the induction altogether due to an impasse with the band over the group’s performance. “I appreciate the award and I want to… Source: RollingStone Link: Chicago's […]
The 31st annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened with David Byrne, Kimbra and the Roots paying a heartfelt and arty tribute to David Bowie by performing “Fame.” The ensemble kicked into the funky groove as the legendary white-haired Talking Head, dressed in a suit with sparkly lapels, started… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch David […]
Kid Rock inducted fellow Midwestern rockers Cheap Trick into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Friday night. This marks his third time inducting an act into the Hall; Rock had previously been on hand to induct Aerosmith in 2001, and he returned in 2004 to induct his close… Source: RollingStone Link: Read Kid […]
On Friday night, the members of N.W.A – Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, MC Ren, Yella and the late Eazy-E – joined a handful of rap artists who are members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It’s an honor that means a lot to the group. “It means that… Source: RollingStone Link: Read N.W.A's […]
A man finds his lover in bed with another man. "Fuiste Mia" ("You were mine"), a slick music video by the Mexican-American singer Gerardo Ortiz, has garnered more than 25 million views on YouTube — and provoked a furious backlash in a country that suffers from an ingrained culture of sexual violence and where killings […]
N.W.A had been on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s ballot three times before, but 2015 was no ordinary year for the Compton rap collective, especially with the biopic, Straight Outta Compton, earning over $200 million and lots of Oscar buzz. After Kendrick Lamar’s induction speech, the Compton rap legends – including… Source: RollingStone Link: N.W.A's DJ […]
Kendrick Lamar is the biggest rapper to come straight outta Compton since the G-Funk era. On Friday night, he inducted his Compton forbears – N.W.A’s Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, MC Ren and DJ Yella – into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Lamar has previously spoken out about… Source: RollingStone Link: Read Kendrick […]