The late Michael Jackson will forever be known as the King of Pop. Throughout his record-breaking music career however, Jackson very generously dabbled in rock and roll, collaborating with some of the genre’s musical elite in the process. 
"The songs started to flow and most of them came quickly to me. To have all those hits, it was just ...I mean amazing really. Going from doing okay for probably three or four years to suddenly being in the big time, it was a strange but great thing."
Order the Red Rocks 6/28 webcast on LiveWidespreadPanic.com and get MP3s and an archived video stream of the show bundled with your webcast pass. 
Phish has been quite busy lately. The Vermont quartet released their 12th studio album, Fuego, earlier this week. The band also performed on the Late Show With David Letterman on Tuesday and will appear on the cover of the upcoming July/August issue of Relix. 
‘Trout Mask Replica’ is one of the weirdest and wildest albums ever to be released. Landing on record store shelves on June 16, 1969, Captain Beefheart‘s ‘Trout Mask Replica’ amazed, confused, irritated and enthralled anyone who dared listen to it. While certainly not the most listenable of Beefheart’s albums, it remains his most well-known and most captivating, losing none of its unique charm or fire. 
While Jimmy Page has been busy remastering the Led Zeppelin catalog, Robert Plant has been in the studio working on new material. Earlier this week, he released the first of those efforts, ‘Rainbow,’ which can be streamed at Ultimate Classic Rock. 
For a band that has built their success on their ability to interact with one another while playing live, Phish has struggled at times to find that same collaborative interplay in the studio. For Fuego, their 12th studio album, Phish tried something they’ve never done before. Instead of leaving the duties of writing to guitarist Trey Anastasio and lyricist Tom Marshall, the band locked themselves in Anastasio’s barn in the Vermont woods and hammered out the tracks.
Former Journey lead singer Steve Perry’s long-awaited return to the stage late last month has naturally fueled speculation as to whether the vocalist would ever reunite with his former band. But in a new interview, he is once again quick to both dash those rumors and pay his respects to the man who has held that position for over seven years now. 
Although it’s not the reunion tour that fans of progressive rock legends Genesis have been hoping for, the band just revealed that they have been working on a big new project together.
Ultimate Classic Rock's 2014 summer tour guide is here to make sure you don’t miss any of the great rock concerts hitting the road this summer. It looks like it’s going to be a fantastic season for live music, and we’ll help you map it out.
It should have worked. Van Halen, some six years after an ill-fated attempt to carry on without Sammy Hagar, reunited with the “Red Rocker” for a trio of new songs and a huge 80-date tour. Rather than signal a triumphal second act for the most commercially successful Van Halen line up, however, this 2004 tour marked a ugly end — even as it pointed the way for what would come next, both for Van Halen and for Hagar. 
Now that their rivalry has been settled with an epic ‘Tonight Show’ drum battle, Will Ferrell and Chad Smith are ready to team up and take on a new opponent: Metallica‘s Lars Ulrich. 
The String Cheese Incident, STS9, Umphrey’s McGee Bassnectar, The Flaming Lips and more rolled through Ozark, AR over the weekend for this year’s Wakarusa. The festival was once again marred by frequent rain, though it never reached the biblical proportions of the previous year’s festival.
As Phish prepares to hit the road for their summer tour, Trey Anastasio has hinted that the band will be playing fewer covers. The guitarist recently told Rolling Stone, “I think you’re going to see a lot less covers… because everyone’s excited about the new material.” Speaking about the band’s new album, Anastasio also told the publication, “I hope it’s good – that would be great…The bigger dream for me is that the songs establish themselves in the live repertoire.”
It appears that Paul McCartney is not back to 100 percent perfect health. The rock legend has been forced to postpone the first two weeks of his U.S. tour this summer.
For 10 minutes, the band jammed, improvising their way through their opening number before transitioning to the rest of their three-hour set.
With the release of Lazaretto, Jack White will release an unprecedented version of the album on vinyl, called an Ultra LP, that contains numerous special features and will make you re-think the possibilities of the enduring format. - 180 gram vinyl
- 2 vinyl-only hidden tracks hidden beneath the center labels
- 1 hidden track plays at 78 RPM, one plays at 45 RPM, making this a 3-speed record
- Side A plays from the inside out
- Dual-groove technology: plays an electric or acoustic intro for "Just One Drink" depending on where needle is dropped. The grooves meet for the body of the song.
- Matte finish on Side B, giving the appearance of an un-played 78 RPM record
- Both sides end with locked grooves
- Vinyl pressed in seldom-used flat-edged format
- Dead wax area on Side A contains a hand-etched hologram by Tristan Duke of Infinity Light Science, the first of its kind on a vinyl record
- Absolutely zero compression used during recording, mixing and mastering
- Different running order from the CD/digital version
- LP utilizes some mixes different from those used on CD and digital version
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Led Zeppelin is the debut album by English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was recorded in October 1968 at Olympic Studios in London and released on Atlantic Records on 12 January 1969 in the United States and 31 March in the United Kingdom. Featuring integral contributions from each of the group's four musicians, the album established their fusion of blues and rock. It also attracted a large and devoted following to the band; Zeppelin's take on the emerging heavy metal sound endeared them to parts of the counterculture on both sides of the Atlantic. 
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers have added a few dates to their tour with Steve Winwood, while cancelling a few others. The band axed their previously scheduled gigs in Kansas City, MO and Lincoln, NE to make time for a two-night run at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO on September 30 and October 1.
On June 1, 1964, America was first introduced to a group of five long-haired English lads who called themselves the Rolling Stones. Though they had become a hit in England, the U.S. was only vaguely aware of this new band. Indeed, their first album, ‘England’s Newest Hit Makers’ had only just been released in America two days before their arrival. 
Their concluding dates will follow a quartet of rescheduled Beacon shows to be held on October 21-22 and October 24-25. Those were postponed after Gregg Allman fell ill.
At this point, you practically need a scorecard to keep track of the feud between Jack White and the Black Keys, which had been simmering for years but finally boiled over in 2013, after White accused the Keys of riding his coattails in a series of leaked e-mails.
Disraeli Gears is the second album by the English rock band Cream. It was released in November 1967 and went on to reach number 5 on the UK Albums Chart. It was also their American breakthrough, becoming a massive seller there in 1968, reaching number 4 on the American charts. The album was #1 for two weeks on the Australian album chart and was listed as the #1 album of 1968 by Cash Box in the year-end album chart in the U.S. The album features the two singles "Strange Brew" and "Sunshine of Your Love".
