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Courtesy of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame The late Joe Cocker was one of the artists chosen for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year, and his family is happy to see him finally recognized.Cocker, who passed away in 2014, has been eligible for the Rock Hall for over 30 years and got in on his first nomination. His widow Pam Cocker tells Billboard his induction is […]

Al Pereira/WireImage The Bruce Springsteen Archives Center for American Music held its third annual American Music Honors on Saturday in New Jersey, and the night featured some all-star collaborations.This year’s honorees included John Fogerty, Smokey Robinson, Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello, Emmylou Harris and Joe Ely, and Springsteen himself joined in on several of the night’s performances.Fan-shot footage shows Springsteen and Fogerty, backed by Little Steven Van Zandt's band the Disciples […]

Jim Dyson/Getty Images Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil has responded to the band's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.In an interview with Billboard, Thayil shares that in Soundgarden's early days he "had an aversion to the idea" of the Rock Hall, but started to warm up to it after frontman Chris Cornell inducted Heart during the 2013 ceremony and seeing fellow grunge bands Nirvana and Pearl Jam get in."Chris lived […]

Courtesy of Big Machine Rock Sammy Hagar has said that his newly released single, "Encore, Thank You, Good Night," was inspired by a dream he had about Eddie Van Halen, and that’s exactly what he depicts in the video for the song.In the clip, Sammy wakes up from a dream and starts writing the song on a pad beside his bed, with the video cutting to old home video footage of […]

On This Day, April 28, 1973…Pink Floyd landed their first #1 with their eighth studio album, The Dark Side of the Moon.The album, which features such songs as “Money” and “Brain Damage,” spent only one week at #1. But it went on to spend 741 weeks on the Billboard Albums chart between 1973 and 1988, and has since gone on to spend 990 weeks on the chart.The Dark Side of […]

ABC/Randy Holmes Dave Grohl made a surprise appearance during a charity concert in Los Angeles on Saturday.The Foo Fighters frontman was joined by a band including Foos keyboardist Rami Jaffee for a set of covers. Footage posted by the fan account Foozie's Foo Fighters News shows Grohl leading a rendition of the LCD Soundsystem song "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House."The set list also included performances of The Knack's "My […]

Courtesy of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Bad Company is thanking fans for the support that helped them get chosen for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year.“Thank you to all of our fans and voting members of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame committee,” the band writes on Instagram. “Congratulations to all our fellow inductees. We stand alongside some amazing artists, past and present. What an absolute honor.”Frontman […]

ABC/Randy Holmes Vicky Cornell, the widow of late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, has shared her reaction to the band's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame."Thank you @rockhall," Vicky writes in an Instagram post. "And huge thanks to all the fans who voted who's constant love and support keep his legacy alive."Chris Cornell died in 2017. Soundgarden was first nominated for the Rock Hall in 2020, and were […]

Courtesy Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Bad Company, Joe Cocker, Soundgarden and The White Stripes are among the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, who were announced Sunday on American Idol.Also getting into the Rock Hall this year are "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" singer Cyndi Lauper, “Twist” king Chubby Checker and rap group Outkast.While they've both been eligible for decades, Bad Company, the supergroup featuring former Free members Paul Rodgers and […]