Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley has always praised one Led Zeppelin album in particular, and he explains the albums that changed ...

Some imagined that by Avalon, Roxy Music had degenerated into non-ironic AOR. But the sounds on this ... Mackay and Manzanera. The songs bring to mind what the New Romantics might have achieved?

AOR - or album-oriented rock bands - became ... which had the same kind of career arc as Styx. Both bands had some great rock ...

"Televangelists and fossil fuels/ Metal detectors in all our schools/ Private prisons and Mountain Dew/ That stuff's American ...

Blige, pop diva supreme Cher, Dave Matthews Band, AOR rockers Foreigner and Peter Frampton ... I’m Coming Home,” is one of his favorite songs. 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductions Rock ...

Unrelentingly Northern in attitude, both parts the slow-burning band that split in two seemed happy with their lot – but is their story one of unfulfilled achievements?

A massive 'well done' to Dublin post-rock quartet Overhead, The Albatross, who won last week's Tracks Of The Week with the ...

AOR legends Foreigner are to be inducted into ... Drummer Dennis Elliot left the band in 1993, though he has made the occasional live guest appearance since. In a Facebook post he explained ...

Once one of the many bywords for 1970s lameness, Steely Dan have been embraced by a new generation for their jazz-inflected ...

Our face probably fitted because at the time Live Free or Die was number one in the AOR charts ... but (the new songs give us) a reason to get in the van and go out and do it again. “Once upon a time ...

Often pigeon-holed as AOR, Carpenters were actually ... When Carpenters first heard the music on the radio, a DJ joked about them “doing a Jimi Hendrix song.” They also received mail from ...

Phil Lesh, the bassist for the Grateful Dead who propelled many of its wildest musical explorations yet also composed and sang one of its loveliest songs ... feeling disconnected from the AOR-oriented ...