In early 1978, Van Halen jumped from LA clubs to a world tour almost overnight. Here’s how their first Aragon Ballroom set lit the fuse on arena rock.
How Sara Evans turned small-town heartbreak into Cheatin’, one of country music’s sharpest cheating anthems, with a story, meaning and scandal to match.
Inside the barely documented 1970 Syracuse gig where Derek & The Dominos, Duane Allman and a young Elton John turned a half-full war memorial into a once-in-a-lifetime guitar summit.
In 1978 Linda Ronstadt crashed the Rolling Stones stage, rewrote a macho anthem and sparked rumors with Mick Jagger. Here is what really happened.
Inside Dylan’s London folk epiphany, Italian heartbreak and the tangled love triangle behind “Girl From the North Country.”
From a lonely highway sax to double-tracked drums, take a close listen to three Bob Seger intros that grab you by the throat before he sings a word.
Inside the food fight, frantic studio session and secret heartbreak that turned The Wind Cries Mary into Jimi Hendrix’s most quietly devastating song.
Inside the surreal 90s night when Tom Petty jumped behind a drum kit for Mike McCready and Baker Saunders, and what that tiny Polaroid says about rock history.
How an art-school romance between Charlie Watts and Shirley Shepherd survived the Rolling Stones, heroin, anger, and a life built around Arabian horses.
How Jan Kuehnemund turned a Minnesota high school band into Vixen, fought for her name, and quietly rewrote the rules for women in 80s hard rock.