ZZ Top reportedly held secret recording sessions without old-school manager/producer Bill Ham so the group could give Afterburner a more modern sound. "I wouldn't say that we defied Bill," the late ...

ZZ Top is the last band that comes to mind when discussing lineup changes. For over 50 years, the group's self-effacing motto was, as frontman Billy Gibbons frequently explained, "The same three guys ...

Mere photographs don't do it justice. You have to see it to believe it.' You've heard it before, you'll hear it again—especially after ZZ Top's CadZZilla makes its grand appearance in New York on June ...

For its glorious first four minutes and two seconds, ZZ Top‘s Afterburner achieves the impossible: flying higher than its big brother Eliminator. For another three and a half, the Texas trio at least ...

If ever anyone in rock 'n' roll deserved to be called greybeards, it's ZZ Top, the self-described "same three guys playing the same three chords," who are marking 50 years together. "I'm dumbfounded!" ...

When ZZ Top stepped out on the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater stage Friday night, for its first gig since the death of Dusty Hill earlier this week, by sounds and appearances it might have been 1975, or '85, ...

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ZZ Top will be celebrating their 50th anniversary with a world tour this year, including extensive legs in Europe and the United States. The trio formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas, and following a few ...

UPDATE (Nov. 16, 2022): ZZ Top's Elwood Francis has now explained why he used the 17-string bass and shared who inspired him to do so. ZZ Top were playing the Mark C. Smith Concert Hall at the Von ...

ZZ Top’s “Raw” is as close to being an accidental album as it gets. The album, which is set for release this summer, is drawn from a session at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas in which ...

Dusty Hill, the bassist for blues-rock trio ZZ Top, has died. He was 72. “We are saddened by the news today that our compadre, Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston, Texas,” ...