Artist: Peter Frampton

While many people's knowledge about Peter Frampton starts and ends with his 1976 double-live album Frampton Comes Alive , the guitar-player has been impressing audiences since the age of 18, when he was a founding member of the blues-rock act Humble Pie. This summer Frampton will put his guitar playing on display as he's lined up an impressive package toured dubbed Frampton's Guitar Circus. Joining Frampton at various stops in the support slot on the  lengthy summer run  is a meaty [...]

MUSIC NEWS- After his success with a 2011/2012 world tour celebrating the 35th Anniversary of his multi-platinum live album Frampton Comes Alive!, Peter Frampton is back on the road with Frampton’s Guitar Circus. Each night, Frampton’s set will be recorded...

The Black Crowes kicked off a two-night stand at the iconic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville last night and brought out a special guest with them. Saturday's show was an all-electric rocker as opposed to tonight's gig which is the Crowes' only announced all-acoustic performance. Ironically, tonight's show is billed as "with Special Guests," but that didn't stop the band from welcoming legendary guitarist Peter Frampton out to jam with them on a four-song string towards the end of their set. [Image via Muzikfreak70 ] [...]

"Bukka White, Son House, Robert Johnson...for a town with two street lights, it was pretty amazing that you could find those records." Daniel Lefkowitz and Jared Elmore 's space-folk project Futur Primitif tour Europe at the end of the Summer including a stop-off at The G-Man's favourite little festival End of the Road . No stranger to the delightful Dorset setting (Lefkowitz is a former member of Low Anthem who have played the festival more times than [...]

The fifth album from Phoenix, Bankrupt!, is out via Loyaute/Glassnote on April 23. The band will tour North America this spring, including a headlining slot at Coachella ... The Uncluded is the combined forces of Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson, who have appeared on each other’s latest records. The duo’s debut album, Hokey Fright, will [...]

The band that delivered some of the sweetest lyrics on record in the 00’s is back-2012, meet Lifehouse’s sixth studio album, Almeria . Don’t go expecting Lifehouse to deliver an album full of “You and Me”s or “Hanging By a Moment”s; what fun would that be? This time around, Lifehouse pulled Natasha Bedingfield into the mix for the first single off Almeria “Between the Raindrops,” a testament to the pop trend that was present on the group’s last record and which continues throughout this latest release. Despite the repetitive and at times simplistic nature of [...]

We've all struggled to get something to post to Facebook. Same thing happened to Peter Frampton overnight. Unlike us, however, he has more than 640,000 followers, and they got a front-row seat for the online rant that followed. Apparently, Frampton - who has just released a double-disc concert commemoration of his most successful album called FCA 35 Tour: An Evening [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Hanna Toresson Back in 1976 he set the word on fire with Frampton Comes Alive!, the classic double album that became the biggest selling record of the year and propelled Peter Frampton to international stardom. From 2011 to 2012 Frampton toured the world in honor of the 35th anniversary of his landmark, 17-million-copy selling live LP, and he recently released "FCA! 35 [...]

On Thursday night at NYC's Park Avenue Armory, the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation celebrated their 15th Annual Collaborating for A Cure Benefit Dinner. For musical entertainment, the charity hired Warren Haynes, Peter Frampton and Gregg Allman . What wound up happening was the Warren Haynes Band performed and brought up Frampton, Allman and Soulive / Lettuce guitarist Eric Krasno at various points throughout the evening. YouTuber sgibson818 filmed much of the memorable festivities including Frampton leading the WHB through [...]

There have been, in the intervening years between Frampton Comes Alive! and this anniversary set, two other FCA!-related live albums from Peter Frampton. Each, really, only underscored the idea that if you were one of the 17 million who bought the 1976 release, then you had all the live Frampton you needed. Until now. Put aside 19952s Frampton Comes Alive [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , Pop Culture , I Fought the Law , Politics as Usual Getty | Getty Most musicians have to tour, but traveling from city to city in a bus or van isn't always the ideal mode of transportation. Many jump at the chance to fly to gigs if it works financially and logistically, but a series of incidents over the years has resulted in some [...]

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Filed under: News , Video , Exclusive Universal Musician Herb Albert and music lover Jerry Moss are in the "A" and "M" behind A&M Records. The label, which is now part of Universal, has kickstarted the careers of so many groundbreaking artists. Now, for the label's 50th anniversary, some of A&M's most notable musicians have sat down to talk about their favorite memories.

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Filed under: News , News Today, Oh Boy! Chris Polk, FilmMagic Peter Frampton has sustained back and neck injuries after a minor car accident on the Southern California 101 Freeway, an LA highway which is infamous for stop-and-go traffic. Frampton, 62, has blamed the other driver, tweeting that she hit him because she was texting. The singer announced that he'd be heading to the ER after his latest flight. [...]

Did Joe Walsh, as he says during a new interview, reinvent the talk box? Those old enough to remember his 1973 Top 10 hit "Rocky Mountain Way" would quickly agree. Walsh, in a talk with Jeb Wright of Classic Rock Revisited, actually credits Nashville steel guitarist Bill West - an electrical engineer and first husband of country legend Dottie West [...]

One of our favorite organizations is having a great night of music for a great cause! Peter Frampton will be joining Jon Brion with host Judd Apatow for comedy and music at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica on Thursday,...

With the 500th episode of The Simpsons airing last Sunday, the last few weeks have been a celebration of everything Simpsons , where all your favorite pundits and prognosticators have combed through the show's venerable timeline to select their favorite gags, cameos, characters and episodes. And, we, like them, desire to reside within the seem geekish glee of choosing our own favorite Simpsons memories within our site's own viewfinder, so today we present The Simpson 10 Greatest Rock Moments involving rock musicians cropping up in the [...]

Peter Frampton will come alive with a favorite old guitar this Saturday - more than 30 years after it was believed to have been lost in a plane crash. Fans remember the instrument, given to Frampton when his band Humble Pie appeared at the Fillmore West in 1970, as the centerpiece of his mega-selling late-1970s solo concert recording Frampton Comes [...]

MUSIC NEWS - This week, on February 18 at NYC's Beacon Theater , Grammy winning guitarist Peter Frampton will play his restored 1954 Gibson Les Paul for the first time. The long-lost guitar was recently discovered on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao after its disappearance in a plane crash 32 years ago. Frampton was reunited with the guitar in an emotional meeting in Nashville this past December. Now, with the help of the Gibson Guitar’s Custom Shop, Frampton will debut the recovered guitar during his NYC concert on his world tour [...]