BEST CLASSIC BANDS – CELEBRATING THE ARTISTS, MUSIC AND POP CULTURE OF THE CLASSIC ROCK ERA
Bonnie Raitt Announces 1st Dates of 2026 Tour
The 13x Grammy winner broke through to the top in the early 90s with her albums Nick of Time and Luck of the Draw.
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Burton Cummings, Randy Bachman Announce 2026 Tour as the Guess Who
The pair will be touring as The Guess Who for the first time in 23 years after finally reaching an agreement to reacquire the rights to the name.
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Eagles Announce Final 2026 Concerts, at Sphere in Las Vegas
The run at the state-of-the-art venue now extends to March, bringing their total there to 56.
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Tedeschi Trucks Band Release ‘Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited’ With Leon Russell
The 2025 album marks 10 years since their iconic tribute performance at the Virginia-based LOCKN’ festival.
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Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’: Poetry In Motion
She said, “Of course I wanted to work in the rock ’n’ roll tradition. I didn’t know any other tradition existed.”
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Young Bob: Bootleg Series Vol 18—’Through the Open Window 1956-1963′ Delivers Early Dylan
The 2025 collection tells the story of his emergence and maturation as a songwriter and performer, from Minnesota to the Greenwich Village bohemia in the early 1960s.
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Bonnie Raitt Announces 1st Dates of 2026 Tour
The 13x Grammy winner broke through to the top in the early 90s with her albums Nick of Time and Luck of the Draw.
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Rockpile’s ‘Seconds of Pleasure’: One And Done
By any measure they were a great rock ‘n’ roll band, but their sole album under the group’s name didn’t always show why.
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Willie Nelson Sings Merle Haggard on New Album, “Workin’ Man”
His 78th studio LP is the latest in his storied history of focusing entire albums on a single songwriter’s or artist’s work.
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Carly Simon’s Breakthrough to Superstardom: ‘You’re So Vain’
Watch the singer-songwriter perform a previously unheard verse of her huge 1972 hit from a ‘Carly Simon No Secrets’ classic albums special.
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Radio Hits in November 1976: More Cowbell!
A novelty hit topped this week’s chart but there were huge rock hits from Frampton, Boston, Kiss, Rod Stewart and Steve Miller. More cowbell, anyone?
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AC/DC Announce 2026 Edition of ‘Power Up’ Tour
The lengthy run includes many North American dates in markets that were omitted in 2025.
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Dick Van Dyke 100th Birthday Celebration Coming to Theaters
The actor, singer, dancer, and comedian turns 100 in December 2025.
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‘Ringo’: His 1973 Solo Breakthrough, With a Little Help From You Know Who
Although he’d had a couple of solo hits post-Beatles, the albums just weren’t happening. Then he reached into his phone book and made a few calls.
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