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45 years ago today, Genesis released their fourth studio album, an effort which was the band’s most substantial commercial and critical UK success up to that point. Naturally, it didn’t even chart in America. Recorded at Island Studios in London...

It stands to reason that a band with the audacity to release a double album as its debut would likewise have the audacity to follow that debut … with another double album. That was early Chicago, though. With no fewer...

48 years ago today, David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash released the second single from their self-titled debut album, a harmony-laden epic which – just as its title promised – was indeed an actual suite. Composed by Stills, “Suite...

21 years ago today, Van Halen formally announced that they’d selected someone to replace Sammy Hagar as the band’s lead singer: Gary Cherone, formerly the frontman for Extreme. Tensions had been running high for awhile between Hagar and the Van...

ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?! Of course you are. It is Rocktober, after all. If you’re not ready to rock, then you might as well go back to bed, pull the covers over your head, and stay there ‘til November...

He’s well known as the talented, often-astounding guitarist for Fleetwood Mac, but he’s also constructed a fantastic career as a solo artist. He’s Lindsey Buckingham, and today’s his birthday, so celebrate with our best-of-Buckingham playlist, which is filled top to...

He was born on this date in 1949 as Richard Lester Meyers, but you probably know him better by his stage name, so today we celebrate the birthday of – drum roll, please – Richard Hell. Hell first found his...

46 years ago this month, Rod Stewart began a five-week reign atop the Billboard Hot 100…and a week later he kicked off a five-week reign atop the UK Singles chart with the same song. Aye, it was a pretty good...

Here’s a factoid that’ll rock you to your core: it’s been 25 years since Stone Temple Pilots released their debut album. Arriving in the midst of the grunge movement, the hard rock sounds of STP were exactly what listeners were...