Chevy Metal (L to R): Brent Woods, Shane Hawkins and Wiley Hodgden. Courtesy. While raucous cover band Chevy Metal was basically a closed chapter in a rock and roll story when the band showed up to play a tribute show for the late Taylor Hawkins in late 2022, it…

Foo Fighters, “But Here We Are.” But Here We Are is the concept record the Foo Fighters never wanted to make. But Here We Are  Foo Fighters Roswell Records/RCA, Feb. 24 9/10 Get the album on Amazon Music. But a year after the tragic loss of their brother and…

Ian Hunter, “Defiance Part 1.” Ian Hunter has been defiant for many years now, steadfastly resisting most trends in modern rock and pop music to make albums that may well have been big sellers in the 1970s and 1980s, and would be now if the world was a fair…

Taylor Hawkins performs with Chevy Metal at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 25, 2019. Shawn Robbins/STAFF. The first time I saw Taylor Hawkins, I was stunned. It was 1997, and the Foo Fighters were playing Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium in Oakland on The Colour…

Elephant Stone, courtesy. This week we bring the past into the present with Elephant Stone and Niagara Moon taking on the ’60s, NHC and SCALPING bringing back the ’90s, Saxon teaching the ’20s how the ’70s rocked, and Mallrat showing them all how the current day does it. Elephant…

SAN JOSE — With thousands of mostly young music fans lining up for hours to see a K-Pop boy band in Oakland on Tuesday, it was fair to wonder (yet again) what that meant for rock and roll bands. The Foo Fighters didn’t sell out the SAP Center, but…