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The only thing harder than starting a hot streak is maintaining one. Rock history is filled with artists who failed to improve upon or even match the promise of a particularly successful album. Of course, rock’s true legends have proven themselves to be capable of repeatedly surpassing themselves, sharpening and refining their skills while conquering exciting new creative territory. We asked seven UCR writers to pick the best four-album streaks in rock history, and here’s what they chose: The Who: Tommy (1969), Who’s Next (1971), Quadrophenia (1973), The Who by Numbers (1975) It’s almost shock...
Ultimate Classic Rock
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced its 2024 induction class, which means rock fans all over the world are spending the day debating the most surprising inclusions and omissions. This year’s class of performing artist inductees includes Ozzy Osbourne, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Cher, the Dave Matthews Band, Mary J. Blige, A Tribe Called Quest and Kool & the Gang. Alexis Korner, John Mayall and Big Mama Thorton were chosen as recipients of the Musical Influence Award, while Jimmy Buffett, MC5, Dionne Warwick and Norman Whitfield were selected for the Musical Excellence Award. We asked ...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Subscribe to Taste of Country on Youtube You don’t need to go back 20 years to find a time when talking about weed was taboo in proper country music circles. Really, you don’t even need to go back five years! “Sun Daze” was a 2014 hit for Florida Georgia Line, and it surely made this list of 11 songs that helped normalize pot smoking. Medical or recreational marijuana has been legalized in many U.S. states (or soon will be), and there’s not as much outrage over it today as there was before. Did country music help? This list of songs serves as Exhibit A that … maybe? Of course Willie Nelson mak...
Taste of Country
Judas Priest kicked off the North American leg of their Invincible Shield tour on Thursday at Wallingford, Connecticut’s Oakdale Theatre, delivering a blend of mega-hits, deep cuts and new songs off their 19th album. You can see the set list below. The Invincible Shield tour comes shortly after Judas Priest’s 50 Heavy Metal Years tour, proof of their status as a pillar of the genre. Several songs in the band’s current set lists have been mainstays for decades, a testament to their enduring popularity. In fact, a look at Priest’s set list from exactly 40 years ago — when the band was at its com...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Judas Priest kicked off the North American leg of their Invincible Shield tour on Thursday at Wallingford, Connecticut’s Oakdale Theatre, delivering a blend of mega-hits, deep cuts and new songs off their 19th studio album. You can see the setlist below. The Invincible Shield tour comes shortly after Judas Priest’s 50 Heavy Metal Years tour, proof of their status as a pillar of the genre. Several songs in the band’s current setlists have been mainstays for decades, a testament to their enduring popularity. In fact, a look at Priest’s setlist from exactly 40 years ago — when the band was at its...
Loudwire
Here are 10 examples of musicians who only played on a big band’s debut album. It often takes several years for a band to release their first full-length sequence; as such, you’d think that by the time they do – and hopefully reap the benefits of their hard work – everyone involved is there for the long haul. However, the annals of rock and metal music are filled with situations that led people to jump ship before the group put out their sophomore album. Usually, they’re musicians who joined after the project got going, but there have also been numerous incidents of founding members moving on ...
Loudwire
Journey managed to release one of the most talked-about clips in MTV history during their brief time making videos. As you’ll see below in our ranking of every Journey music video, however, there were plenty of other high and low points beyond the ubiquitous “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart).” Because of their relatively small video catalog, we’ve expanded the rankings to include closely related clips from Steve Perry, Bad English (which included three members of Journey’s current lineup), Gregg Rolie and Neal Schon. That serves to provide a broader overview of their career arc from the ’70s throu...
Ultimate Classic Rock
As we celebrate the anniversary of Godsmack‘s Faceless album this week, it got us to thinking what is the best Godsmack album? So Loudwire Nights host Chuck Armstrong is turning that over to you Godsmack fans for this week’s Chuck’s Fight Club. He’s decided to pit the hugely successful 2003 album Faceless against the band’s 1998 self-titled breakout album, both of which were key records in the group’s musical history. The Godsmack album put the band on the map, with the singles “Whatever” “Keep Away,” “Voodoo” and “Bad Religion” commanding the airwaves and making them a hot new band in the hea...
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On April 8, for precisely four minutes and 27 seconds, the moon will pass in front of the sun blocking out all light — a total solar eclipse. The last time this kind of galactic display occurred was in 2017, and although eclipses like this do happen once every 18 months or so, they’re usually not visible to people on land. This is because the distance between the moon and the sun varies, meaning the width of the eclipse’s path also varies, and given that most of the earth’s surface is covered by ocean, that’s a lot of eclipses that go unseen. But you’re not going to want to miss this upcoming ...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Kurt Cobain penned some amazing lyrics for Nirvana, but which were his best? Nirvana changed the face of music and launched a cultural revolution during their relatively short tenure, as fans fell in love with the band’s heavy but incredibly infectious musical vibe. Part of that came from the lyrical output of frontman Kurt Cobain, who often played with contradictions within his lyrics to offer a unique take on his subject matter. Some lyrics were deeply personal, while others were character sketches inspired by the world around him. The end result yielded some of the most memorable and quotab...
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