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Since launching in 1991, Lollapalooza has established itself as one of the preeminent music festivals in the world. It was Perry Farrell, the Jane’s Addiction frontman and an influential leader in the alt rock movement, who envisioned an event where talented artists from “fringe” genres – alternative, rap, punk, industrial, electronic, pretty much anything except pop or country – could assemble and perform. Everyone would be welcomed – in fact, the more of a “weirdo” or “freak” you were, the more you would be embraced. “I thought about all the amazing, wonderful people that I would bring toget...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Rock ‘n’ roll is supposed to offer an escape from the mundanity of everyday life. So it only makes sense that the genre would be rife with songs about teenagers. But as our list of Top 30 Teenage Songs — written to commemorate UCR’s 13th birthday in 2024 — proves, the age bracket is the only common denominator across these tunes. Some of the songs on this list are snot-nosed punk anthems about adolescent angst and rebellion. Others provide more wistful reflections on the turbulence and fleeting nature of youth. Some of the songwriters on this list couldn’t wait to grow up. Others wanted to sav...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Lainey Wilson just won the ACM Award for Entertainer of the Year, and in doing so, she joins Taylor Swift in a very select group of country women. The “Hang Tight Honey” singer went back-to-back at separate awards shows. Keith Urban was the last country artist to win a CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year consecutively, but the last woman to take both was Swift in 2011 (Shania Twain and the Chicks did it a decade prior). Talent is a given during this conversation. She wouldn’t be nominated if she lacked it, and her show-opening performance served a reminder of how strong the 31-year-old is on s...
Taste of Country
When rock stars come together and collaborate, they can create something truly memorable. That’s the case for every entry in our list of the 30 Greatest Duets in Rock History. In many cases, a male/female dynamic turned out to be the perfect combination. Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, Ann Wilson and Mike Reno and Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty are just some of the many examples of opposite genders uniting to make an impressive song. Other classic duets saw artists crossing genre boundaries to create groundbreaking material, like Aerosmith teaming up with Run DMC and A...
Ultimate Classic Rock
In the world of movies, the smart money is always on sequels failing to live up to the film that inspired them. Decades of cinema history offer pretty concrete evidence that the odds are always against sequels. In fact, some of the very best movies ever made have led to some of the worst sequels ever made, something we explored at length on a recent list. Now it’s time to test the odds in the opposite direction, and to take a look look at sequels that were not only good, they were actually better than the middling to outright badmovies that preceded them. These sorts of films are rare — far ra...
ScreenCrush
Rage Against the Machine and System of a Down both used their platform to raise the political consciousness of their fanbases, but which of these veteran rock bands did it the best? That’s the question at the center of this week’s Chuck’s Fight Club on the Loudwire Nights radio show. Yes, these two politically-minded bands are friendly. Serj Tankian and Tom Morello even formed the Axis of Justice non-profit organization together. But as both bands would be the first to urge you to vote, this week we’re going to ask you to vote for one of these bands over the other. Rage Against the Machine dom...
Loudwire
We all have that one thing we did in high school, elementary school — or maybe even last week — that we kept from mom. So do your favorite country stars, like Carrie Underwood, Frankie Ballard and Sam Hunt! For Mother’s Day, Taste of Country caught up with some of the biggest names in music and asked them to spill their secret escapades — to come clean to mom once and for all. These stars did not disappoint. Ballard makes perhaps one of the most outrageous reveals, noting that he once said he got a scar from a go-kart accident, but that he and some friends actually attempted to brand themselve...
Taste of Country
The following post contains SPOILERS for literally every single Planet of the Apes movie ever made, so listen up you maniacs: If you don’t want to know how these movies end, stop reading now. Everything past this point is the Forbidden Zone for you. It’s one of the most important unwritten rules of Hollywood — not to mention one of the great songs by the O’Jays — you’ve got to give the people what they want. And what most people want is to leave the movie theater feeling good. Audiences have enough tragedy in their own lives. If they come to the multiplex and plunk down their hard-earned money...
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Journey has always maintained a rugged tour schedule, extensively touring even when there wasn’t a new studio album to promote. Yet, oddly enough, this history of road work has not always been well-documented. For instance, there’s only one official live recording to chronicle the time on the road supporting their first six studio LPs. Another one wouldn’t arrive for decades. Without much of a backlog of albums to survey, a comprehensive countdown of Journey live projects simply has to take in their concert films, as well. That makes room for Journey 2001, the only live release from Steve Auge...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Movies and television, despite the fact that both are mediums where actors reenacting usually fictional scenarios are recorded on cameras and screened for rapt audiences, are not the same. They’re completely different mechanisms for storytelling — one is obviously longer than the other, with more of an emphasis on character and story evolution, while the other tells an immediately compelling plot in a more economical amount of time. All those people back in the day who kept talking about how Game of Thrones is just a “long movie” were talking nonsense. That doesn’t mean that the two can’t cros...
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