There were some great American rock bands in the 1960s, but so many of them came from California that they didn’t present a very diverse product. SoCal singer-songwriters and Bay Area psychedelia ...

Aerosmith’s Joe Perry may have surprised readers when he picked 1975’s Toys in the Attic as one of the 10 records that changed his life. There it was, taking its place alongside classic cuts from ...

In the final stretch of making its iconic 1975 album “Toys in the Attic,” Aerosmith stumbled upon inspiration for “Walk This Way” while strolling through the seedy streets of Hell’s Kitchen and Times ...

From the start, Aerosmith was hellbent on becoming the American equivalent of the Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin. Two years after forming, Aerosmith signed with Columbia Records in 1972 and released ...