In the course of the band’s 3-hour plus show at The Forum in Los Angeles recently, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong announced to the crowd that he wanted one among them to climb onstage and play guitar on “Jesus Of Suburbia.”

Back in 2002, I visited VP Records in Jamaica, Queens to interview Chris and Patricia Chin, the son and wife of Vincent Chin, the papa who started the label side of the jamaican music store back in 1979. Soon after my day at VP, my own father died, and I put the story on hold, [...]

People from all around the world made their way to the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts last week, for the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival. The Bethel Woods amphitheatre sits on the same land of the original festival (but not the original stage area), acres that were once owned by Max Yasgur, the [...]

The music world has lost a true giant. What’s very weird for me is that I went to the Gibson Show Room in Manhattan today and Les Paul was everywhere. I showed up to interview ACE FREHLEY, who aside from having a signature Les Paul line, has long been associated with the brand, even before [...]

If you live in the New York/Tri-State area and you love blues and jazz, there’s a great little place called The turning Point in the great little town of Piermont NY. I was there a couple of nights ago and had the pleasure of catching blues duo Satan and Adam (Sterling Magee and Adam Gussow). [...]

On the cover of the August issue, you’ll see Fabolous, a rap star who’s on his fifth album (but first for Def Jam), Loso’s Way. He was as cool on the phone as he looks in this picture. Here’s some of our INTERVIEW where he talks about doing the “label shuffle.”

YOU’LL NOT SEE NOTHING LIKE THE MIGHTY BOOSH

If you’ve turned on your television since the shocking death of Michael Jackson, you’ve no doubt seen the last rehearsal footage of the King of Pop and his band getting ready for his final tour, dubbed, This Is It. Up there sharing the stage with him is this striking blonde guitarist named Orianthi. The Australian [...]

Ok, ok, ok, laugh all you want, I know, I know, I know; instead of Jon Anderson YES has Benoit David (who,depending on when you were born may remind you of Peewit from the Smurfs, in his boyish, ren faire kind of way). But if you just look at the psychedelic images floating across the [...]

Exactly one year ago today, the Motor City Madman, Ted Nugent marked his 6,000th show by playing to over 20,000 shit-kickin fans at the DTE Energy Music Center in Detroit. Needless to say, the hometown crowd loves their hometown hero, the guy who will hunt and shoot almost anything for protein, the rocking gonzo who [...]