Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith revisits the early days of his career during a March 2025 interview with UCR.

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Watch famed progressive metal band Mastodon take the stage with Ben Eller just days after announcing Brent Hinds' departure.

Tougher than glam rock and pre-dating punk by a couple of years, the Heavy Metal Kids were swashbuckling rock’n’roll pirates fronted by doomed livewire Gary Holton. In 2004, Classic Rock traced the ...

"We're deeply proud of and beyond grateful for the music and history we've shared and we wish him nothing but success and ...

The rendition took place at an In Conversation event at London’s Royal Geographical Society on March 4, which was held in celebration of the release of Slow Train Coming: Bob Dylan’s Girl from the ...

Goodbye to David Johansen, the last jet boy standing from the New York Dolls. It wasn’t just his madman energy that helped invent punk rock — it was his warmth and soul. He got a loving send-off in ...

New Orleans-based musician Benjamin Booker in January released 'Lower,' his first new album in seven years. He now closes out a tour at Siberia on Friday, March 7.

Paramount+ has opened up its vault of classic MTV Unplugged episodes. Over 50 episodes of the live performance series have been added to the streamer, alongside dozens more episodes of VH1 ...

A well-regarded metal guitarist who came up during the rise of the thrash-metal scene in San Francisco during the early '80s, Soderlund was raised in a musical family (both his parents played jazz ...

Even after Slayer’s official farewell tour wrapped up in 2019, the guitarist wasted no time in ... pedal to the metal,” he shares. “When this tour cycle’s over we want to go right back ...

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