Longtime Van Halen producer Ted Templeman stuck to his guns about not being a fan of the band's classic song “Jump,” though he admitted his assessment of the song was wrong. After working on the ...

Historically, hard rock has had a tough time on the Billboard Hot 100. That was true in the '60s and '70s, when heavy metal was just coming into existence and when its heroes almost never got anywhere ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...