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Back in the 70s part of takin’ care of business for Bachman-Turner Overdrive meant performing underneath a large steel replica of the band’s gear-shaped logo, with flashing lights — a visual gimmick as heavy as the opening chords of “Not Fragile” or “Four Wheel Drive.” The quartet used the prop throughout its arena-filling heyday, when it had three albums in the Top 50 of the Billboard 200 chart (BTO II, Not Fragile, Four Wheel Drive) and “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” lodged at No. 1. “that thing weighed tons,” Randy Bachman tells UCR. It was tonnage. It was built on one-inch plywood all bolted...
Ultimate Classic Rock
What are your earliest memories of food? For chef Ayesha Kalaji, she recalls sitting at her grandmother’s kitchen table eating shish barak surrounded by jars of bright pink pickles. “I’ve always adored food – there are pictures of me when I was younger with my head in a mixing bowl,” she remembers. These days, you’ll find Ayesha serving grilled Nabulsi cheese with Persian black lime honey at Queen of Cups, her Glastonbury restaurant that serves unique and delicious dishes taking influence from her Jordanian roots. From Iraqi pitas to black tahini and black cardamom ice cream, Queen of Cup’s go...
The New Arab
“It was like a completely new thing,” Melvins singer Buzz Osborne tells Full Metal Jackie on her weekly radio show about the band’s Tarantula Heart album, adding “It’s very odd.” Indeed, Osborne did come up with a very unique approach to recording the band’s latest record. revealing that two of the band’s members for this album were surprised when they heard the final album. He details how it all went down in the chat below. Osborne also delves into what passes the muster for him when it comes to creating their new music, details what’s on the horizon for both himself and Melvins and he also t...
Loudwire
Country music is in the DNA of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ catalog. Decades ago, before the Heartbreakers even existed in their full form, Petty was playing country songs in what he would later describe as “real redneck country” Floridian bars, trying to earn a living as a burgeoning performer. “[The crowd was] always kind of weirded out by us because we had long hair, playing country music,” Petty said in 2005’s *[Conversations With Tom Petty](https://www.amazon.com/Conversations-Tom-Petty-Paul-Zollo/dp/1787601625). “And that was completely unheard of in those days.”* Petty’s country inf...
Ultimate Classic Rock
“It was when I turned 15, because I picked up the guitar on my birthday. It was that summer.” Slash joined Chuck Armstrong on Monday’s Loudwire Nights (June 17) to celebrate the recent release of his latest solo album, Orgy of the Damned. In addition to discussing that record, he also opened up about how he fell in love with rock — and the guitar — in the first place. “I had been going to music festivals, I was really into a lot of records and a lot of music,” he recalled. “At that time it was all a huge new discovery thing for me. All these new bands and all these records that I hadn’t heard ...
Loudwire
Hamada Shaqoura is a well-known food blogger from Gaza who has garnered attention for his efforts to provide cooked meals, mostly from aid packages, to displaced children amid the ongoing war. His work exemplifies the power of community-driven initiatives and the impact of leveraging social media to raise awareness and mobilise support amid the Israeli war on Gaza. "Each meal prepared from an aid package tells a story of hope and determination. By sharing these stories, I want to humanise our struggle and keep the plight of Gaza in the global consciousness" Hamada built his online reputation a...
The New Arab
Palestinian-American chef and third-generation exile Marcelle G. Afram's pop-up catering business Shababi has been making waves in Washington D.C. Through Shababi, which translates to "my youth" in the Palestinian dialect, Marcelle hopes to showcase the Arab-American hospitality with which he was raised. Marcelle sat down with The New Arab to discuss his role in the culinary industry, its connection to his identity, and how both have developed since October 7. "It was the embodiment of Palestine's spirit, expressed in many iterations" Raised by his parents and grandparents with a love and curi...
The New Arab
“I should have done it. Do it, ladies and gentlemen. Reach out.” Ahead of A Day to Remember‘s show in the Kansas City area on Sunday, June 9, frontman Jeremy McKinnon spoke with Loudwire Nights host Chuck Armstrong about one of his dream collaborations and why it will never happen. The conversation aired exclusively on Thursday’s edition of Loudwire Nights (June 13). “I remember back in the day,” McKinnon told Chuck, “Tom Petty would have been up there for me. There was a time where I was considering putting together a more, just like, singer-songwritery — my own stuff. I do that on the side a...
Loudwire
Mike Campbell has been making records since the ’70s, most famously as a member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. “I’m grateful that I was part of that whole experience,” Campbell recently told UCR, speaking to his Heartbreaker days. It’s been a full decade since the band released their last album, 2014’s Hypnotic Eye, and six and a half years since Petty’s passing, which effectively ended the Heartbreakers. Campbell describes himself as “still grieving,” but tries not to spend too much time dwelling. “If I think about it too hard, I’ll just get sad,” he says. In the past four years, he’s ke...
Ultimate Classic Rock
After a very busy 2023, this year seems to be pretty quiet for Shinedown. While they have a handful of live shows, it’s nothing compared to the massive tours they embarked on last year, all in support of their latest album, Planet Zero. As drummer Barry Kerch recently revealed, though, Shinedown are actually keeping busy in other ways in 2024. “We’ll be kicking it hard again next year because we are currently working on whatever that next record is going to be,” Kerch shared on Loudwire Nights Tuesday (June 11). “I literally was just in Charleston last week at the studio where we recorded Plan...
Loudwire
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