Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s October 24th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! Starting the day off with an amazing list of releases, beginning with Hybrid Theory from Linkin Park in 2000! Other releases include: the live album Skull and Roses from the Grateful Dead in 1971 and Rush’s Hemispheres…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s October 23rd and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! While watching a 1984 broadcast on BBC of the ongoing famine in Ethiopia, Bob Geldof begins the Band-Aid relief effort. The effort would release the charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas? just a month later. Just…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s October 22nd and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! Starting off in 1990, while at the Off Ramp in Seattle, Mookie Blaylock played their first concert together. They would soon be known as Pearl Jam. Moving into releases, we got two from Zeppelin, their live album…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s October 21st and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! In 2001, The Concert For New York City took place in Madison Square Garden to help raise money for victims of the 9/11 attacks and their families. On the bill that night included Paul McCartney, Elton John,…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s October 20th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! Starting the day on a sad note, as in 1977, a passenger plane carrying southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from South Carolina to Louisiana crashed in a wooded area in Mississippi. Six people were killed in the…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s October 19th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! Stating the day in 1980, as just months after the death of frontman Bon Scott earlier that year, AC/DC made their triumphant return to the stage with new vocalist Brian Johnson. Birthdays today include Thundercat and Pete…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s October 18th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! Its a short and sweet kind of day starting off with releases, as in 1974 we got The Rolling Stones’ It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Other releases include The River from Bruce Springsteen in 1980, Other Voices…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s October 17th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! Starting the day with releases, in 1977 we got Skynyrd’s Street Survivors. This would be the final album with frontman Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines, as three days later they would be killed in a…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s October 16th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! Starting the day with birthdays as it’s Michael Balzary’s birthday! You may know him better as Flea. Other birthdays include Nico of the Velvet Underground, Bob Weir of Grateful Dead and Chad Gray of Mudvayne In 1968,…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s October 15th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! Starting the day off in 1995, as Paul McCartney and wife Linda appeared on The Simpsons in the episode Lisa The Vegetarian, with the stipulation being that Lisa becoming a vegetarian would be a permanent character change.…… MORE
