Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s December 8th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! December 8th is a very tragic day for fans of The Beatles, as it was on this day in 1980 that Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon outside his home in New York City. After…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s December 7th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! Starting the day with birthdays and we’ve got the greatest guitar of the modern era: Nita Strauss! Other birthdays include Gem Archer of Oasis, Phil Cunningham of New Order and Dominic Howard of Muse! In 2014, Pink…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s December 6th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! The 1960’s came to a metaphorical end as, in 1969, a free festival held at The Altamont Speedway in California divulged into chaos during The Rolling Stones headlining set in front of nearly 300,000 people, as the…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s December 5th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! Starting the day on a grosser note, as in 1997, at the KROQ Christmas concert, Jane’s Addiction’s Dave Navarro scrawls an encouraging message to Fiona Apple….with his own blood. Moving onto releases now, we got Band on…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s December 4th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! Starting the day with birthdays, we have Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Jelly Roll. We got Limp Bizkit’s New Old Songs in 2001! In 1980, Led Zeppelin disbands just two months after the death of drummer…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s December 3rd and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! We spoke about it yesterday, but in 1976, day two of the three day photo shoot for the cover of Pink Floyd’s upcoming album Animals took place at the Battersea Power Station in London. The photo shoot…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s December 2nd and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! Starting the day in 2023, as KISS concluded their farewell tour at Madison Square Garden in NYC with the encore performed by the new digital avatars of the group created by Pophouse. Paul Stanley described the choice…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s December 1st and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! Starting the day in 1987, as a Kentucky appeared in front of the US Supreme Court to appeal her wrongful termination lawsuit against her former school. She was fired for showing Pink Floyd’s The Wall in class.…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s November 30th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! Starting the day off strong as we got Pink Floyd’s The Wall in 1979! We also got Into the Unknown from Bad Religion in 1983 and the Collision Course EP from Linkin Park and Jay-Z in 2004!…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s November 29th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! Starting with releases, we got Tormented from Staind in 1996 and GN’R Lies from Guns N Roses in 1988! And the first Now That’s What I Call Music was released in 1983 in the UK. The brand…… MORE
