Phish premiered their new song “The Line” earlier this week via Rolling Stone. The track, which is set to appear on the band’s forthcoming album Fuego, deals with the story of Darius Washington Jr., the University of Memphis basketball player who cost his team a the Conference USA Championship when he missed two free throws against Louisville in 2005. 
In a recent BBC Wales Radio Interview, Queen guitarist Brian May confirmed that the group will be releasing a new record later this year which will feature a selection of previously unreleased songs sung by Freddie Mercury.
The band moe. was featured on the game show, Jeopardy, earlier this week when Alex Trebek asked a question/answer about the band’s song “Captain America.” 
Pete Townshend has always been obsessed with stories, not just songs. In the mid-’60s, there were few songwriters (the Kinks’ Ray Davies comes to mind) who were more interested than the Who guitarist in crafting songs that related a short tale or painted a character portrait. Listen to those early Who singles and album cuts; many of them are simple, two-and-half-minute stories – ‘A Legal Matter,’ ‘Pictures of Lilly,’ ‘Tattoo’ and (most of all) ‘I’m a Boy.’ 
Steve Perry, one of the most elusive frontmen in rock, hasn't performed with Journey since 1991, or performed solo concerts since 1995. But don't stop believin', Perry fans. The rock icon finally returned to the stage Sunday night… to join indie-rock band the Eels at the 1,000-capacity Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn.
Ghost Stories is the sixth studio album by British rock band Coldplay. The album, co-produced by the band with Paul Epworth along with returning Mylo Xyloto producers Daniel Green, and Rik Simpson, was released by Parlophone on 16 May 2014. The album was released by Atlantic Records in North America on 19 May 2014. It is the first full-length release by the band in North America under Atlantic, after Coldplay were transferred from Capitol Records in 2013, following the purchase of EMI and its assets by the Universal Music Group in 2012.
Jeff Tweedy has announced the members of the backing band for his upcoming solo tour. The Wilco frotnman has revealed that he will be joined by his son Spencer Tweedy (drums), Jim Elkington (guitar), Darin Gray (bass) and Liam Cunningham (keys) when he takes the stage for his forthcoming solo dates. Tweedy also confirmed that his highly anticipated debut solo album will be released soon, with more details about the record coming in the near future.
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R.E.M. called it quits in 2011, ending one of the most acclaimed runs in rock history. But fans have reason to celebrate – first with the band's new Unplugged set, and now with a tease of future archival releases. "We have a lot of stuff in the vaults, a fair amount of stuff that's never been released," bassist Mike Mills tells Billboard in a new interview. "We all want to do something with this stuff. We know we've got some really good things hanging around."
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page told us he “left no stone unturned” while remastering and expanding the legendary group’s studio albums for their upcoming deluxe edition re-releases, and said his goal was to offer listeners “a window into when they were recorded.”
Though it’s been five years and counting since the Canadian rocker released the first volume of his ‘Archives’ series, it looks like we might be close to seeing the release of the second. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Young talked about the state of the next box set. “It’ll be finished this summer. All of the music will be done,” Young said. “It goes just past [1979's] ‘Rust Never Sleeps.’ It’s full of albums that weren’t there before – stuff I did that I never put out.” Of the albums that Young recorded but never released during this period include ‘Chrome Dreams’ from 1977 and ‘Homegrown’ from 1974-5.
“Look around you people—this is it,” Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme implored as his band tore through a 75-minute set on the Chevrolet Stage. Homme, who celebrates his 41st birthday today, was just one of the musicians to take time to acknowledge the beautiful surroundings on day one of this year’s Hangout Festival.
Yesterday we reported that Dave Grohl would be hosting an HBO show about iconic recording studios. It now appears that the series will be something of a companion to the Foo Fighters’ upcoming eighth album, which is set for release this fall.
Classic rock history is filled with monster bands, monster albums and monster hits, but what about songs written about actual, you know, monsters? That’s the question we asked ourselves — because we lead sad, sad lives — and then proceeded to research thoroughly, debate extensively, cross-reference carefully, and finally sign off in triplicate (see above re: “life…very sad”) – all for the purpose of bringing you the following list of Top 10 Monster Songs.
Hard Working Americans will play at Iron City in Birmingham, AL on July 29 as the band wraps up their tour of the South. The stop in Alabama will follow a lengthy run in Texas that ends with a pair of shows in Austin and Dallas at Stubbs and House of Blues, respectively.
It’s hard to believe it has already been seven years since Led Zeppelin regrouped for a one-off performance at London’s O2 Arena, headlining the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert. Tickets sold out faster than the speed of light, and got everyone talking about a full blown tour. Everyone that is, but singer Robert Plant, who has been very vocal about his lack of interest in reliving his past.
Escape (stylized as E5C4P3 on the front of the album) is the seventh studio album (and eighth overall) by American rock band Journey, released on July 31, 1981. It topped the American Billboard 200 chart and features four hit Billboard Hot 100 singles - "Don't Stop Believin'" (#9), "Who's Crying Now" (#4), "Still They Ride" (#19) and "Open Arms" (#2) - plus rock radio staples like "Stone in Love", "Mother, Father" and the title track "Escape". It was a massive success, being certified 9x platinum by the RIAA and selling over twelve million copies worldwide. Only their Greatest Hits, at 16x, has sold more copies. Escape is the band's most successful studio album and is recognized by fans and critics as one of the greatest and most successful arena rock albums of the 1980s.
The idea to form their own custom label was first tossed around a year earlier when the band’s original contract with Atlantic Records expired. Naturally, Atlantic president Ahmet Ertegun was keen to do whatever it took to keep one of his label’s biggest acts. With full knowledge of the unprecedented leverage they had, the band’s manger Peter Grant struck a deal with Ertegun for the group to work under their own distinct imprint with an exclusive distribution deal given to Atlantic.
The 2014 lineup of the Babys features two original members, guitarist Wally Stocker and drummer Tony Brock, who are joined by guitarist Joey Sykes and bassist/vocalist John Bisaha. As previously reported, original singer John Waite and longtime keyboardist Jonathan Cain both declined to be part of the action, but gave their blessings on their new adventure.
The Black Keys’ forthcoming album Turn Blue is now available to stream via iTunes. Slated for a May 12 release, the eighth album from Auerbach and Carney features production work from Danger Mouse as well as the band themselves.
As the Gov’t Mule Twitter stated following the band’s show in New Orleans last night, “Never miss a NOLA Mule show.” Over the course of the evening at NOLA’s Saenger Theatre, the band would trot out 36 guests in all to add their talents to Mule originals as well as covers. 
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes is the seventh studio album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. The is his breakthrough 1977 album, which remains the best-selling album of Buffett's career, and contains his biggest single, "Margaritaville". It was initially released in January 1977 as ABC AB-990 and later rereleased on its successor label, MCA.
Ultimate Classic Rock is pleased to present the exclusive premiere of a brand-new lyric video for Paul McCartney & Wings‘ iconic song ‘Band on the Run.’ 
The String Cheese Incident stopped by Amoeba Records in San Francisco, CA prior to their show at the Fox Theatre in Oakland that evening. The band ran through four tunes from their new album Song in My Head including the title track along with “Can’t Wait Another Day,” “Stay Through” and “Colorado Bluebird Sky.” 
