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10 Ed Sullivan Rocking Classics
There was a time in America when Sunday night meant The Ed Sullivan Show. With its consistently strong ratings, a booking on the variety program was a golden opportunity for performers of any stripe, whether a puppeteer, plate spinner, comic or rock ’n’ roll band, and everyone, it seemed—young and old—was in front of a TV set to watch the former newspaperman and his guests at the end of every weekend.
11 Greatest Not -So-Typical Guitar Leads
Most of these lead-guitar spotlights began in the same spirit: collaboration and experimentation. In most cases, also, the result was a happy accident, which often might not have made it onto the album, but for a simple twist of fate.
The 15 best Halloween guitar solos
Spooky six-string classics you need to play this year
17 Classic Chuck Berry Covers
It’s with that in mind that we present, to commemorate his 90 great years, our list of 17 of the greatest-ever Chuck Berry covers. Berry was rock’s poet laureate—he virtually created the language both lyrically and on the guitar. If you don’t know Chuck, you don’t know rock.
The 20 Greatest Party Anthems
The 20 hardest party anthems for beer drinkers and hell raisers
The 20 heaviest songs before Black Sabbath
So lean back, strap in and take a trip back to the prehistoric age (the mid to late 1960s, for the most part) as Guitar World unearths some pre-Sab heavy metal thunder (and yes, that tune is on the list) with the 20 heaviest songs before Black Sabbath.
20 New Bands to shake up the 2020's
With the likes of The Struts and Greta Van Fleet already blazing the trail – and Massive Wagons proving that great tunes and a passionate grassroots following can get you a Top 20 album – the resurgence is well underway. So let’s dive into the next phase.
The 120 Minutes Archive
Welcome to The 120 Minutes Archive, the independent, critically acclaimed, definitive library of music video nostalgia.
1965 NME Concert
1965 NME Concert: Beatles, Stones, Kinks + more
1970: The Year in 50 Classic Rock Albums
At the start of a new decade, as freeform radio was becoming more prevalent, music buyers were starting to buy albums in greater numbers.
The Beach Boys' Lost Concert: 1964
The Beach Boys’ Lost Concert: Watch the Band Perform Their Classics at Their Zenith (1964)
The Beatles, Ed Sullivan and five songs that changed American music forever
The Chambers Brothers Greatest Song
When the Chambers Brothers’ ‘Time’ Had Come
The Complete Collection of MTV'S Headbangers Ball
Premiering in April 1987, MTV’s Headbangers Ball featured music videos from metal and hard rock bands of the 80s and 90s–everyone from AC/DC and Mötley Crüe, to Ozzy Osbourne, Def Leppard and Twisted Sister, to Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Van Halen. If you’re jonesing to revisit some metal classics, you’re in luck. Some enterprising soul has created a playlist of 1,215 music videos featured on Headbangers Ball.
Cream play Tales of Brave Ulysses
Watch 1960s blues rock trio play the final show of their Madison Square Garden farewell in 2005
The Grateful Dead Movie
The Grateful Dead Movie documents “a tour-ending five night stand at the Winterland Ballroom in October 1974. These were their last shows with the Wall of Sound, and the film includes amazing performances of many favorites like One More Saturday Night, Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad, Truckin’, Sugar Magnolia/Sunshine Daydream, Stella Blue, Casey Jones, and Morning Dew.”
Jerry Garcia's 50 Greatest Songs
From country-rock gems to exploratory jams, from Grateful Dead classics to solo high-points, here’s the ultimate guide to an epic musical life
Jimi Hendrix Jam Session
Jimi Hendrix live in Maui
Watch an exclusive clip from Music, Money, Madness... Jimi Hendrix In Maui
The Last Time the Jimi Hendrix Experience played
Metallica
WATCH METALLICA LIVE AT SLANE CASTLE
Tune-in to the first entry in our #MetallicaMondays series of videos.
Monterey Pop Festival- 10 Killer Performances
Occurring over three days between June 16-18, Monterey took the conventions of the classic multi-band theater revue show and blew it up to big-as-all-outdoors proportions.
Nita Strauss makes suprise appearance
Watch Nita Strauss make surprise return appearance with Alice Cooper at Colorado show last night
The Ramones Play New Year's Eve Concert in London 1977
Revisit the Infamous Rolling Stones Free Concert at Altamont 1969
Altamont became known as the “anti-Woodstock” that broke the culture of the 60's.
The Rolling Stones- Sympathy For the Devil
New footage of the Stones’ Rock And Roll Circus has emerged, and it shows John Lennon having a ball
Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus Deluxe: Review
The Sex Pistol's Era Defining Punk Rock
The Sex Pistols’ Era-Defining ‘Never Mind the Bollocks’
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Anniversary: Review

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