Popdose — In more than four decades in the music business, Jimi Jamison has worn quite a few different hats. While perhaps best known for his work with Chicago-based AOR rockers Survivor, his trademark vocals also helped to power albums by ZZ Top (take a fresh... more info

Guardian Music — Tempted to view the Stones bringing Florence Welch onstage as cheap credibility chasing? Their history suggests otherwiseYou might have sighed a little, surveying the latest reports of the Rolling Stones' 50th anniversary shows. So Florence Welch cam... more info

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Guardian Music — They have put buffalo on hydraulic lifts, made crack-rap cover versions and taken part in Dada-inspired art projects. ZZ Top are the veteran absurdists of 12-bar blues"We thought: 'Let's have a stage the shape of Texas.'" In dark glasses, 10-gallo... more info

Prefix — Photo gallery of ZZ Top at Main Street Armory in Rochester, NY (November 2, 2012) Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/photos/zz-top-main-street-armory-in-rochester-ny-pics/ more info

Guardian Music — (Sony/Columbia)If 2012 has been a vintage year for elderly rock bands – ZZ Top, Rush and Kiss have returned with albums recalling their peaks – no one seems to have told Aerosmith the golden rule: make sure you remind your listeners of the 1970s.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Malia James and Jules in New Orleans (via @malia-james) "Dum Dum Boys" @ One Eyed Jacks, 10/30/2012 (via @julesdumdum) Dum Dum Girls are currently touring across the South and Southwest, including a stop at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin... more info

Guardian Music — (UMC)Like ZZ Top and Rush before them, Kiss seem to have finally rediscovered (after their stodgy 2010 comeback album, Sonic Boom) what made them so great in the first place. And that was their ability to combine sleazy bar-room riffs with fist-pumpi... more info

Guardian Music — KUT Austin radio's David Brown on the songs that soundtrack this cosmopolitan college town – from Cold Shot by local legend Stevie Ray Vaughn to Lost Coastlines by the darlings of the Red River music scene, Okkervil River• As featured in our Aust... more info

Guardian Music — Indie revivalists who namecheck Cantona and Sega but seem to be trying too hard to spoof too many thingsReading this on a mobile? Click here to listenHometown: London.The lineup: Martin Bowman (guitars), Andrew Wagstaff (vocals), Simon Oldham (drums)... more info