It Was Fifty Years Ago This May
By Kenneth Wait
Editor note: The following article, originally entitled It Was Thirty Years Ago This May, was the very first piece to be published on VintageRock.com on June...
The Great Band Scandal
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
Here’s a question that may be on nobody’s mind but mine: Just who is left of the original “beach boys” in The Beach Boys? The 60s...
RIP Neil Peart: Rock’s New-World Man
By Ira Kantor
Neil Peart made rock and roll stoicism its own kind of virtuosity.
If we were to look at the Rush drummer compared to other legendary luminaries like Keith...
Dr. John: Eternally Bonnaroo
By Ira Kantor
Equal parts shaman, maestro and artistic lord of the bayou, music’s unmistakable Night Tripper Dr. John has bid us farewell at the age of 77.
What Dr. John...
Brian Wilson: 50 Years Of Pet Sounds
By Harvey Kubernik
For 2016, music legend and Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson has announced a world tour to celebrate and perform the iconic album Pet Sounds for a final...
Essential Blues: 10 Must-Have Collections For The Vintage Rocker
To quote Muddy Waters, "The blues had a baby, and they named it rock and roll." While most fans of the latter are generally aware of this fact, it's...
Eliot Lewis Is On A Crusade With His New Video – Feature Article
By Chris Epting
Eliot Lewis is familiar to many music fans as the longtime keyboard player/ singer both on the popular TV show "Live from Daryl's House" as well as...
12 Last Minute Vintage Rock Stocking Stuffers
In what has become a tradition (or maybe, depending on how you look at it, it’s become a bad habit), we’ve rounded up the best of the latest Vintage...
Top 10 Vintage Rock Studio Albums Of 2020
To say 2020 has been an unusually tough year is a vast understatement. You'll get little argument from anyone that it pretty much sucked. There was, however , a...
Berlin, U2, and Achtung Baby
By Lanny Cordola
When U2 made the trek to Berlin in the early 1990s, their mission was to record the follow-up to their great American homage: Rattle & Hum. However,...

















