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New Releases: Art Garfunkel, Aerosmith Single & More

Let’s take a look at this week’s albums, reissues and other musical goodies from classic artists making musical waves yet again.

2012/08/28

Montreux festival founder Claude Nobs gained a famous nickname in a famous song. (Getty Images/Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Rock Flashback: The Fire That Inspired “Smoke on the Water”

“[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Frank Zappa[/lastfm] and the Mothers Were at the best place around But some stupid with a flare gun Burned the place to the ground.” The incident that inspired the [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Deep Purple[/lastfm] classic “Smoke on […]

2011/12/06

Todd Rundgren, Doing His Best to Win the Longest Song Award (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Top 10 Longest Rock Songs We Can Remember

Back in November of 1971, [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Led Zeppelin[/lastfm]‘s record label, Atlantic, released a promotional single of “Stairway to Heaven” to radio stations. At 8 minutes long, it found occasional late-night play on AM radio. But, […]

2011/12/03

20 Songs For Memorial Day Weekend Grillin'

There is nothing better our dearly departed G.I. Joes and Janes would want us to do to celebrate their sacrifice on Memorial Day than to have a BBQ in their honor. While the coals heat […]

2011/05/30

RnR Music Owes Dr. Robert Arthur Moog

Known as Bob Moog (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005), Dr. Robert Moog was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.

2011/05/23

Keith Richards Falls While Reaching For Nude Art And Other Tales From This Week In Music History

This week in music history, we have two new [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Keith Richards[/lastfm] mishaps as well as a band brawl that doesn’t involve [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Oasis[/lastfm]. A death during a guitar solo and a country singer married […]

2011/05/16

Happy Birthday Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, […]

2010/12/21

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