In honor of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 2024 induction class, we ranked every member from best to worst.
View of the wreckage of a Beechcraft Bonanza airplane in a snowy field outside of Clear Lake, Iowa, early February 1959. The crash, on February 3, claimed the lives of American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. Richardson (known as 'The Big Bopper'). (Ph...
As one of the most enduring and influential acts in the punk genre, Social Distortion continues to make waves with their unique blend of rock 'n' roll attitude and punk spirit. Rock Out To Some Of The Most Popular Songs From Social Distortion - "Story of My Life" - ...
That bus would be a deciding factor for the pioneers of rock n' roll. The bus was always cold or breaking down - and it was often without heat. When the Winter Tour arrived at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. HOLLYWOOD, CA - SEPTEMBER 07: Recording artist Buddy Holly's posthumo...
folk-tonedThe Velvet Undergroundand 1970’sLoaded, which despite being recorded while he was leaving the group, contained two Reed standards, “Rock & Roll” and “Sweet Jane,” were similarly ignored. But they’d be embraced by future generations, cementing the Velvet Underground...
Here is Simmons' explanation of the idea (revised for Rock and Roll): Here's the premise: In an ideal world, the Hall of Fame should be a place where someone could stroll in, spend weeks walking around, absorb everything about [rock music] ... by the time they departed, they would...
first in the US and then in the UK. Listening to the Standells, the Seeds, Count Five and the 13th Floor Elevators, kids who’d been drowning inTales from Topographic Oceansdiscovered that pop songs worked best when they were two minutes long and built on a minimum of chords, with lyrics...
but it was the bands ability to take various elements of the southern culture mixed with their own brand of folksy post punk rock and roll to launch them where they are now. Other impressions that I was left with was how the songs represented quite a bit of Athens. As they mentioned, ...
From the classic Rockpalast video that most fans have probably watched on Youtube, and the first song that I ever heard of the band. I still remember thinking back at the opening few chords and how unique they sounded to anything else I was listening to at the time. 2 The Wake-Up ...