Two of rock's biggest bands square off against each other in the first round of Ultimate Classic Rock's quest to find the Greatest Summer Song. You can vote for either the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun ...

Grammy-nominated, chart-topping artist Chris Lake and UK-based DJ/producer Sammy Virji team up on “Summertime Blues” featuring Nathan Nicholson, released today via Black Book Records/Astralwerks.

“Summertime Blues”, it is said, took Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart just 45 minutes to write. Three verses about a teenager cursed by the fact that instead of cruising with his girlfriend, he has to ...

The groundbreaking cover didn't just reinvent a rock and roll classic; it helped usher an entirely new genre into the mainstream.

In 1966 Eddie Corcoran sang, “There ain’t no cure for the summertime blues,” which is a rather dark pronouncement of an otherwise pretty cheerful time of year. Long days, pool parties and outdoor BBQs ...

Eddie Cochran, by all accounts, didn’t want to go to England. A little more than a year before his trip in the spring of 1960, he’d lost Richie Valens and Buddy Holly, friends both, in what still ...

It's an enduring tune about the "summertime blues," but the artist responsible for the song couldn't outrun some blues of his own. For the second instalment of his weekly series about popular summer ...

This famous account of a young man's depressing summer -- originally from Eddie Cochran, then covered by classic rockers such as Blue Cheer and The Who-- seems pretty upbeat on the surface. But if you ...

More than 30 acts, the majority of which are from B.C., are set to appear this week at Nanaimo’s Summertime Blues Festival. That’s a distinct change from the 2019 version, when the Nanaimo Blues ...