3+ hour, 17+ min ago   (744+ words) On International Youth Day (August 12), I hosted the UK’s first festival to accept plastic waste as an entry fee (supported by Westminster Council, Power Up and Mete Coban: GLA deputy mayor for energy). Using on-site plastic recycling machinery at the…...

3+ hour, 34+ min ago   (969+ words) Cheetah Chrome fell backwards. He kept playing. It was July 1975, and Rocket from the Tombs were opening for Television at Cleveland’s Piccadilly club. As the band launched into “Sonic Reducer”, the guitarist landed on his back and carried on. In…...

5+ hour, 1+ min ago   (160+ words) Paul Gray has spent decades holding down the low end for The Damned alongside Captain Sensible, Dave Vanian and Rat Scabies, and fifty years on he still isn’t ready to call it history. Ahead of the band’s ongoing touring, Gray…...

7+ hour, 27+ min ago   (287+ words) doyouremember.com Eric Clapton opened his short U.S tour with a set full of familiar favorites, deep cuts, and one especially surprising throwback 6 concert at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, the 81-year-old guitarist reached back more than five decades and…...

7+ hour, 7+ min ago   (413+ words) If there’s one thing you can guarantee with any rock star, it’s that they’re not going to be quiet about their opinions. Joe Elliott is no different in that regard. Yet through the virtue of being the frontman of Def…...

7+ hour, 12+ min ago   (455+ words) Cinema Stereo were stuck until a piece of songwriting advice from John Mayer helped Ian Rayha turn one difficult day into “Lean On You,” a swaggering rock song whose lyrics came together in just 10 minutes. “Lean On You” and its…...

10+ hour, 7+ min ago   (316+ words) Ashley Sherlock has added two very special guitars to his arsenal after officially joining the Fender roster, giving the UK blues-rock guitarist another major milestone as work continues on his next studio album. The endorsement puts a pair of Fender…...

10+ hour, 7+ min ago   (527+ words) In 1962, Jorma Kaukonen would move to the San Francisco Bay Area to attend university. The city was already buzzing with a certain energy that we recall today as the counterculture, slowly brewing, but at the time, surely nothing could have…...

10+ hour, 37+ min ago   (440+ words) Ask most artists whether they prefer playing live onstage to an audience or tinkering around in the studio, and most will go with the former. But out on stage, there’s no possibility of fixing any mistakes, overdubbing new parts, stitching…...

22+ hour, 37+ min ago   (338+ words) Before he met his partner-in-crime in both music and life, Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo cut his teeth in late rocker Rick Derringer's band. It was no trivial job, he beat 200 other guitarists to get the gig – not to mention Derringer's…...