He was born in Rockford, Illinois, in 1948, a small town whose name was predestined for the future six-string madman. In the ...

Cheap Trick, Rockford, Illinois’s greatest musical export, released their fourth studio album, “Dream Police” on Sept. 21, 1979.

After much hemming and, yes, a fair amount of hawing, I've finalized my local and non-local playlists for the year. For bonus ...

Michael Bublé’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” actually marked the first time a cover song cracked the Billboard Hot 100 ...

Merchant Street MusicFest announced the lineup this week for Wintersong, an indoor music festival set for Saturday, Jan. 11 at 150 N. Schuyler Ave. in downtown Kankakee.

If you're finding that one room is always colder than another, the experts recommend 'balancing' your radiators to ensure ...

Cheap Trick or Blue Öyster Cult or Styx. This classic from the 1976 debut is both overtly comedic as well as proggy, so it ...

Eddie Van Halen might have been the leader of Van Halen, but that didn't stop them from hating some of his songs with a ...

Cheap Trick’s 12-string bass legend on the joys of multiple amps, and why bass players should never use effects ...

With co-founder Paul Quinn stepping down first from touring and then recording with Saxon, they brought in Diamond Head riffmaster Brian Tatler and made Saxon’s 24th studio record. Crammed with ...

However, she would have been wise to have paid attention to Topol, who correctly sang If I Were A Rich Man in Fiddler On The ...

"I think the Pumpkins just picked up from where that left off” Fewer words are as full as praise form sone like Billy Corgan than that.