One Twitter user wrote, "Van Halen has been trending at #1 just because Billie Eilish didn't know who they were?! 1. Who cares? 2. She's 17 3. Who cares?" "If you're surprised Billie Eilish has never heard of Van Halen, I would love to ask you wha...
but he especially made an impact on Wolfgang Van Halen. Despite playing bass in Van Halen as a teenager, the young rocker wanted to do his own thing when the time came. In late 2020, shortly after the death of his father Eddie Van Halen, Wolf unveiled his project Mammoth ...
the camp classic "Mr. Roboto"). "We were an American rock band who used classical influences, but Styx was always at heart an American rock band," DeYoungtold UCR. "Most of the prog bands didn't have a Marshall stack. That's not what they were doing. But that's who we were." ...
Here we’ve got the most highly regarded album by thrash metal’s biggest band. There’s not a dud on Metallica’sMaster of Puppets, andthanks to the Netflix seriesStranger Things, a whole new generation is embracing the brilliance of this 1986 classic. At eight songs, there’s no fat ...
It was a sign of yet another inevitable changing of the guard; the Seattle movement that stripped down rock’s musical and aesthetical excesses was about to explode. Van Halen, despite their chart numbers, were beginning to fracture, opening the door for Alice in Chains to make their name, ...
49. Billy Joel – The Bridge I got this as part of a budget-priced, triple-pack of CDs in college. The other two albums in the set were The Nylon Curtain and Storm Front. Released in 1982, The Nylon Curtain contains “Allentown,”“Pressure” and “Goodnight Saigon,” a poignant portr...
While Hillary Clinton ran for president in 2016, the Democratic candidate used Bikini Kill’s “Rebel Girl” in an ad. Bikini Kill drummer Tobi Vail had the song removed, citing her support for Bernie Sanders. Van Halen, Right Now
It was a sign of yet another inevitable changing of the guard; the Seattle movement that stripped down rock’s musical and aesthetical excesses was about to explode. Van Halen, despite their chart numbers, were beginning to fracture, opening the door for Alice in Chains to make their name, ...
Who By Numbers is one of those albums for me. The Who Sell Out, that’s another album that just kind of has its own kind of thing going on in it. It’s a time when we were having fun in the studio. That kind of diminished as it got more and more difficult through the ...
Like the other members of Rush, Lifeson performs real-time on-stage triggering of sampled instruments, concurrently with his guitar playing.The bulk of Lifeson's work in music has been with Rush, although Lifeson has contributed to a body of work outside the band as well. Aside from ...