When Dire Straits released their debut album in 1978, they’d been around for less than a year. While their lack of experience shone through, so did their potential. Seven years later, that potential ...

Stephan Jenkins founded Third Eye Blind in San Francisco, California, in 1993. The name refers to one of your chakras, the third eye. After graduating from the University of California Berkley, he ...

When songwriters write a song, they often use their personal experiences to use as a theme or choose a topic with which listeners can relate. For example, falling in love, the end of a relationship, ...

In 1969, a new supergroup was born. Consisting of former Small Faces lead vocalist and guitarist Steve Marriott, vocalist and guitarist Peter Frampton from The Herd, Spooky Tooth bassist Greg Ridley, ...

Hal Ketchum was born on April 9, 1953, in Greenwich, New York, and raised in the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York. He started his career as an R&B drummer at fifteen years old. At 17, he moved ...

Jethro Tull is a British rock band that has been in the music industry for more than fifty years. The original band was formed in 1967 by Ian Anderson, Glenn Corning, Mick Abrahams, and Clive Bunker.

Greatest hits albums have been around since the late 50s. Johnny’s Greatest hits was the first greatest hits album, peaking at number one on Billboard’s Best Selling Pop L.P.’s chart. The two ...

There’s a time and a place for love songs, but a break-up isn’t it. When a relationship fizzles out, there’s comfort in knowing that someone else has been there, seen that, and written the song to ...

With their power-pop sound, Dwight Twilley Band burst onto the music scene in the mid-1970s. The band consists of Twilley and Phil Seymour on guitars and vocals, Bill Pitcock IV on keyboards, Tom ...

Whether it was as a member of pop rock band outfit, the Raspberries, Eric Carmen has released some magnificent hits throughout his musical career which dates back to more than four decades back. His ...

Peter Tosh was a Jamaican singer, guitarist and songwriter who was, in part, the co-founder of The Wailers band. He had a successful music career and is considered one of the most influential ...

From the lead vocalist to the drummer, each member of a metal band adds to the sound. Almost all metal bands have talented guitarists, and there is usually one member of the band playing the bass ...