February 16, 2011 Neil Young is having quite a month. On February 10th, he was honored at Carnegie Hall as the MusiCares Person of the Year. Some of the artists who paid tribute to Young were Jakob Dylan, Patti Smith and The Roots
February 14, 2011 Mick Jagger performed for his first time at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, Neil Young won his first ever and other classic rock artists picked up trophies too.
Jeff Beck, the Rock and Roll Hall Of Famer, who may reunite with Rod Stewart later this year picked up three Grammy Awards
February 11, 2011 This weekend Phil Lesh and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead are playing in Broomfield, Colorado with their new band Furthur.
Along with Bob and Phil, John Kadlecik of the Dark Star Orchestra plays guitar, Jeff Chimenti from Ratdog is on keyboards, Joe Russo plays drums and the backup singers are Jeff Pehrson and Sunshine Garcia Becker
February 9, 2011 At Sunday night's Grammy Awards the odds of some of KING FM's favorite classic rock artists winning are very good.
Elton John worked with fellow keyboardist Leon Russell last year on The Union album and the single "If It Wasn't for Bad" is nominated for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals
February 8, 2011 It's been a good week for the Smithsonian Museum in Washington. First the swimsuit Farrah Fawcett wore in her famous poster was donated and now Eddie Van Halen's guitar.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of
February 8, 2011 This duo out of Detroit helped spark the garage-rock movement in Michigan. After 14 years together The White Stripes are calling it quits.
A neighbor turned me onto The White Stripe's Elephant CD and I was impressed by all the Hendrix-like sounds the guitarist produced. Later I saw them in the
February 7, 2011 The band that started in Athens, Georgia, in the 80's, R.E.M., will release their last record on the Warner Brothers' label March 8, according to an article coming out in Rolling Stone magazine.
Bass player Mike Mills says after spending 2008 on the road for their album Accelerate, the trio chose not to tour behind
February 3, 2011 It was 52 years ago on a February third that Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash along with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper. Singer Don McLean made the lyric "the day the music died" popular in his song American Pie from 1972.
Holly's influence is still heard today: singer-songwriter M. Ward recent
February 2, 2011 We've heard Stevie Nicks' duets with Tom Petty and Don Henley but she has never worked with Rod Stewart before. That will change this spring when Nicks and Stewart kick off their combined tour in March.
February 1, 2011 The guitarist backing up Tom Petty in the Heartbreakers has also worked with a variety of other artists not only playing instruments but writing songs and producing albums. Mike Campbell just celebrated his 60th birthday on February 1st but shows no signs of slowing down
January 29, 2011 Did you buy any new music in 2010? It seemed like there was a lot of great music released last year and much of it was from our favorite classic rockers.
Tom Petty got back together with the Heartbreakers and put out their first album in eight years called Mojo
January 28, 2011 Deep Purple's 1972 release Machine Head will be this weekend's Album Side Sunday. At the beginning of the eight o'clock hour we'll play side 2 on Your Sunday Brunch.
It starts off with their biggest hit Smoke On The Water, an autobiographical song about the fire that destroyed a casino on the shore of Lake Geneva in Switzerland
