Paul McCartney got the much-needed chance to blow off some steam -- and Steve Miller got a killer rhythm section -- when the two spontaneously collaborated on Miller's 'My Dark Hour' single in May of 1969.
Classic rock is about heavy hooks, power chords, and tight harmonies, but it’s also about letting loose and enjoying the good times — and there’s no better time than Friday evening, when we pick up our paycheck, punch out of work, and enjoy a couple days of much-needed rest and relaxation.
Phish has earned a reputation for peppering its set lists with left-field covers over the years, and the band held true to form during its 2012 New Year's Eve show on Dec. 31, treating the audience to Phish-ified versions of hits by Black Sabbath and the Steve Miller Band.
Between the years 1968 and 1970, the Steve Miller Band released five albums that put them on the classic rock map. The group will reissue those five albums -- with some help from Edsel Records -- this coming Oct. 8 as digitally remastered special digipak editions.
Happy Fourth of July, everybody -- and before you start slipping (slipping, slipping) off to your barbecues and fireworks displays, Birds & Blooms Magazine would like to help you celebrate the holiday with a list of the best-ever songs about birds.
Based on the highly amusing trailer, we already knew Alice Cooper was going to be in the new movie 'Dark Shadows,' which opens this Friday (May 11), but after seeing the film we can reveal that he's far from the only rocker whose music plays an important role in the film.
No in-depth discussion of the Steve Miller Band's entry on our Top 100 Classic Rock Songs list, 'The Joker,' can avoid the tune's central question: What, exactly, is "the pompatus of love"?
A web search reveals that pompatus is a "neologism," or "a newly coined term, word, or phrase, that may be in the process of entering commo
Rev up that big ol' jet airliner -- the Steve Miller Band are back on the road. The tour, which will take the group through 10 countries in seven months, kicks off May 20th at the Doheny Blues Festival in California and winds down in Vienna, Austria on November 4th.
Rock band Everclear include a cover of the Steve Miller Band song 'The Joker' on their recently released 'Return to Santa Monica' album.
