Now, a new book is honoring the 50th anniversary of that famed record. “Eagles and Hotel California: 50 Years” is described ...

This December will mark 50 years since the release of Hotel California, the Eagles' most successful album. The album's title ...

What Joe Walsh and Don Felder needed was Les Pauls and Teles, and lots of them – and Felder in particular made use of a Texan ...

The best classic rock songs often took inspiration from unexpected sources. For example, Eagles’ “Hotel California” was supposed to feel like a number of classic movies. The 1970s band Steely Dan also ...

Not a lot of reggae sounds like Mexican music. However, Don Henley connected the two genres when he heard an early version of The Eagles’ “Hotel California” and called it “Mexican Reggae.” Here’s a ...

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Sullyman The Third (ST3), the New York-based rock band led by singer/songwriter/pianist John Sullivan, has released Condo Florida, a new concept album on South Tenth Records that revisits themes from ...

“We wrote the soundtrack to a lot of people’s lives” ...

Songwriters have little control over how others interpret their lyrics once they put them out into the world, and that includes analysis from a writer’s own bandmates—which is why the meaning of The ...

Rockin' the Gateway is thrilled to welcome back Life In The Fast Lane for the second concert of its 2026 season — and if last ...