Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s October 29th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! While trying to swerve to avoid hitting a semi trailer in 1971, Duane Allman of The Allman Brothers Band was thrown from his motorcycle. The bike bounced in the air, pinned Allman, and skidded another 90 feet.…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s October 28th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! Starting the day in 2011, as organizers what would’ve been the first Metallica concert in India were arrested for fraud for not refunding tickets after the band postponed the show for security issues. This resulted in fans…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s October 27th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! Starting the day off on a sadder note as we lost Lou Reed from liver disease in 2013. We also lost Steve Peregrin Took of T.Rex in 1980 after he choked to death on a cocktail cherry…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s October 26th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! Starting the day off on a sadder note as we lost legendary concert promoter Bill Graham in a helicopter crash in 1991. Graham booked some legendary venues on the west coast like The Fillmore and played a…… MORE
Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s October 25th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History! In 1993, despite refusing to speak with TIME magazine about their story trying to deconstruct the Seattle grunge scene, Eddie Vedder appeared on the cover of the red bordered magazine. Kurt Cobain also refused to speak with…… MORE
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
