Although Tom Petty first made his name at the start of the new wave and punk era, I wouldn’t really call him new wave, and he’s certainly not punk. But...
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Growing up a teenage boy in the ‘80s, I had ears that were deeply steeped in Van Halen. The band was an integral part of the classic rock atmosphere. But...
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Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman) should need no introduction. He’s one of the greats in the history of popular music, a masterful songwriter—indeed, the only rock musician ever to earn...
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Aerosmith gets pretty mad props from a lot of folks, it seems—especially in the Boston area, where I’ve spent a fair chunk of my life—and I guess I can see...
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I remember back in middle school (or junior high, as they called it then, early-‘80s) there was nothing more macho than liking Queen, especially the track “We Will Rock You,”...
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Bruce Springsteen, champion of the American working-class underdog. Gritty realist. Writer of tight, loud rock songs. A muscular street-tough image. The Boss. The man who released Born in the U.S.A.,...
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The band Heart is known to most of us simply as Ann and Nancy Wilson, plus a bunch of dudes. In fact, the dudes came first, back when they were...
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At their peak, ZZ Top—Texas’s greatest unabashed promoters of good, thoroughly unclean fun—proved themselves more than capable of laying down infectious boogie-rock grooves over playfully provocative lyrics that drip with...
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Singer and guitarist Lou Reed got his start in the Velvet Underground, alongside bass guitarist and violist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Maureen Tucker (plus, briefly, singer Nico)....
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A British friend of mine once asked me why Americans liked Steely Dan so much. He didn’t see much in them, and I found myself a bit at a loss...
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