If you play at private events and weddings, you can make much more, somewhere in the ballpark of $300-500 per gig. As a guitar teacher, you can charge $20-50 per hour, usually giving 30-minute lessons. Now, if you find major success, you can make hundreds of thousands or millions ...
and much of Summer’s career aimed to reclaim femininity and sexuality from a place of agency and power. To do so,Bad Girlsleans into rock, letting go of the paradisiacal strings of disco’s past in favor of more hard-edged, synth and guitar-led sounds that lent well to the grounded ...
Bob Dylan (1963):From the loopy title to the goofy cover image, Dylan’s second LP revels in something you don’t see much anymore: his humor. Even the liner notes are funny: “Anything I can sing, I call a song," Dylan writes. "Anything I can’t sing, I call a poem.” With...
The ballads, like "Playing for Time" and "So Much," are magnificent, showing how Gabriel can ably occupy an elder-statesman role and project gravitas that way. But so are the perky, uptempo numbers a la "Sledgehammer" of yore. "Olive Tree," with its ebullient,Graceland-like horn ...
As much of a fever dream as theBlack Crowesreunionhas been, the Atlanta band were really excited about another renewed bond, thanks toAerosmith'sPeace Outfarewell tourwhich began last September. The Crowes nabbed the coveted opening slot on the outing, which reunited the two groups for the fir...
Since 1999, the band has risen from underground metalcore to headbanging rock stardom, selling over 10 million albums along the way. WATCH Wes Lang is an outsider artist who produces nervy imagery often inspired by Americana. Much to his own surprise, his art has occasionally landed i...
UCR takes a chronological look at the 100 best rock albums of the '80s. The Pretenders Sire 'The Pretenders' The Pretenders (1980): Chrissie Hynde was a new-school punk with a classic-rock heart. She loved the Kinks as much as she loved the Sex Pistols, and on the Pretenders' stinging...
through ferocious performances of “You Don’t Know How It Feels” and “Honey Bee.” Petty enjoyed the experience so much, he offered Grohl a permanent position in the Heartbreakers. The drummer respectfully declined the offer, choosing instead to focus on his own burgeoning project: Foo ...
through ferocious performances of “You Don’t Know How It Feels” and “Honey Bee.” Petty enjoyed the experience so much, he offered Grohl a permanent position in the Heartbreakers. The drummer respectfully declined the offer, choosing instead to focus on his own burgeoning project: Foo ...
Bob Dylan (1963):From the loopy title to the goofy cover image, Dylan’s second LP revels in something you don’t see much anymore: his humor. Even the liner notes are funny: “Anything I can sing, I call a song," Dylan writes. "Anything I can’t sing, I call a poem.” ...