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Building a wall full of gold and platinum albums used to be a requisite part of the rock star experience. But for a variety of reasons, it’s getting a lot harder for classic rock artists to add to their collections nowadays. The shift from physical to digital distribution is the biggest reason for this change. According to the World Economic Forum, in the ten years following the 2001 arrival of Apple’s iPod, physical music sales declined by more than 60 percent. This eliminated an estimated $14 million in annual revenue, and replaced it with just $4 million in digital music sales. Streaming se...
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Since launching in 1991, Lollapalooza has established itself as one of the preeminent music festivals in the world. It was Perry Farrell, the Jane’s Addiction frontman and an influential leader in the alt rock movement, who envisioned an event where talented artists from “fringe” genres – alternative, rap, punk, industrial, electronic, pretty much anything except pop or country – could assemble and perform. Everyone would be welcomed – in fact, the more of a “weirdo” or “freak” you were, the more you would be embraced. “I thought about all the amazing, wonderful people that I would bring toget...
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Rock ‘n’ roll is supposed to offer an escape from the mundanity of everyday life. So it only makes sense that the genre would be rife with songs about teenagers. But as our list of Top 30 Teenage Songs — written to commemorate UCR’s 13th birthday in 2024 — proves, the age bracket is the only common denominator across these tunes. Some of the songs on this list are snot-nosed punk anthems about adolescent angst and rebellion. Others provide more wistful reflections on the turbulence and fleeting nature of youth. Some of the songwriters on this list couldn’t wait to grow up. Others wanted to sav...
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When rock stars come together and collaborate, they can create something truly memorable. That’s the case for every entry in our list of the 30 Greatest Duets in Rock History. In many cases, a male/female dynamic turned out to be the perfect combination. Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, Ann Wilson and Mike Reno and Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty are just some of the many examples of opposite genders uniting to make an impressive song. Other classic duets saw artists crossing genre boundaries to create groundbreaking material, like Aerosmith teaming up with Run DMC and A...
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Journey has always maintained a rugged tour schedule, extensively touring even when there wasn’t a new studio album to promote. Yet, oddly enough, this history of road work has not always been well-documented. For instance, there’s only one official live recording to chronicle the time on the road supporting their first six studio LPs. Another one wouldn’t arrive for decades. Without much of a backlog of albums to survey, a comprehensive countdown of Journey live projects simply has to take in their concert films, as well. That makes room for Journey 2001, the only live release from Steve Auge...
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When you have six decades’ worth of music, inevitably, some songs are just not going to make the set list very often. With over two dozen albums to their name, equating to some 400 plus songs, the Rolling Stones have plenty of options to choose from, but the reality is that some numbers have only been performed a handful of times over the years. Some, in fact, haven’t been performed ever. When attending a Rolling Stones concert, it’s safe to assume you’ll hear some tried-and-true classics — things like “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “Start Me Up” — but there’s always a ...
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Everybody loves power ballads, whether or not they admit it. There’s just something about a rock band slowing things down and cranking up the emotion. For generations, the force of power ballads has been on full display. These songs have launched careers and inspired fans across the globe to raise their lighters (and later, cell phones) into the air. No era embraced power ballads more than the ’80s, a time period when ridiculousness was at an all-time high. Journey, Heart and Bon Jovi were among the acts leading the charge, but power ballads came from unexpected sources as well, like Ozzy Osbo...
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If, as an artist, you play your cards right, making a memorable music video can help take a song from unassuming to ultimate hit. There are a lot of ways to do this, one of them being the inclusion of a famous face. Featuring a celebrity, often an actor or model, is an awfully effective way to get listeners to make note of a song — sometimes it’s what people remember seeing more than what they remember hearing. In the below list, we’ve compiled 50 examples of celebrity cameos in music videos. In some cases, the person is almost instantly recognizable, but in other instances, the celebrity in q...
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If, as an artist, you play your cards right, making a memorable music video can help take a song from unassuming to ultimate hit. There are a lot of ways to do this, one of them being the inclusion of a famous face. Featuring a celebrity, often an actor or model, is an awfully effective way to get listeners to make note of a song — sometimes it’s what people remember seeing more than what they remember hearing. In the below list, we’ve compiled 50 examples of celebrity cameos in music videos. In some cases, the person is almost instantly recognizable, but in other instances, the celebrity in q...
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Few albums can be called perfect, but many other classic LPs fall just short of that status. Maybe it’s an out-of-place experimental track or a throwaway song given to the drummer to sing – whatever the case, a single moment can nearly derail a near-flawless record. In the below list of 25 Songs That Almost Ruined Classic Albums, the key word to keep in mind is “almost.” Each album included is great from start to finish; they probably wouldn’t be called classics if they weren’t. But we’re not ashamed to admit that once in a while we’ll skip a song if the mood hits. The list is also limited to ...
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