My dad gave me Patti Smith’s Just Kids for Christmas earlier this year, but I took forever to get around to reading it. I didn’t know very much about Patti Smith’s life, although I had been a fan of her music for quite sometime. I knew she dated Tom Verlaine of Television, who coincidentally looks ...
R.E.M is considered a pioneer of the alternative rock genre forming in 1980 and leading the genre to mainstream popularity in the 1990’s. The original members of REM, Michael Stipe ,Peter Buck , Mike Mills and Bill Berry started by playing for the college crowd and college radio in their hometown of Athens GA. Ever ...
As rock music began to emerge in the late ’60s from its pop, folk, and blues roots to become a distinct genre, women played a key role in how it developed and who it influenced. Here are 10 of the most influential women from rock’s roots. Pat Benatar One of the first women associated with ...
In July 1973 the band Led Zeppelin was robbed of $203,000 from a safety deposit at the Drake Hotel in New York City. Danny Goldberg, former press agent for Led Zeppelin, makes a small mention of the heist in his book Bumping into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business. Jason Buhrmester draws ...
