October 2024

Follow-up albums arrived fast in the late 1960s. On October 5, 1968, just nine months after the release of Steppenwolf’s gold-selling, self-titled debut — the...

Steppenwolf had a habit of capturing the zeitgeist. Their second single, the ever robust “Born To Be Wild,” became an anthem for a generation thanks...

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Steve Miller is now into his second half-century at the helm of the Steve Miller Band. The man from...

R.E.M.’s major-label debut, Green, successfully brokered the band’s introduction to the mainstream rock’n’roll world of platinum discs and large-scale tours, but it barely prepared them...

After psychedelia came to a boil in the late 60s, the blues and rock heroes of the 50s took a brief but thrilling walk on...

Marshall Chess, son of Chess Records co-founder Leonard, had to work hard to persuade Muddy Waters of the benefits in recording Wading In Electric Mud,...