The poetic Patti Smith has been playing live ever since she emerged as the Godmother of Punk from the basement of the CBGB ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Some legacy rock bands stop making new music after a certain point and only ...

“(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult may have come out in 1976, but it’s one of the best-aged classic rock songs you’ll find. It’s a stellar song with some creepy vib ...

Blue Oyster Cult were hard rock and pro rock masters. They had other great songs, of course. "Burnin' for You" still gets some airplay. So does "Godzilla." But the depth of their albums is undervalued ...

Many of the songs’ lyrics playfully explored grim ... to a group of aliens who influence world history as the Blue Oyster ...

"Dancing in the Moonlight" is the only song on this list inspired by a crime that happened to the song's writer themselves.

Classic BOC, boxed… As much as it is in their umlaut and heavy rock, Blue Öyster Cult’s story is also written ... by adding to their repertoire of decent songs at about the rate of one ...

They may have been called “the thinking man’s metal band” but comparing themselves to ELP, Jethro Tull and King Crimson, they ...

Shot in black and white for the measly sum of $27,575 — and released with a soundtrack full of grunge and alt-rock songs that cost ... Fate wrestling Blue Oyster Cult with “Weird Al ...

The Columbia Albums Collection, the new 17-album boxset from Blue Öyster Cult, is reviewed in the new ... way we wrote because we all brought in songs with much more realised arrangements than ...

The year's release schedule is winding down, but there's still time for a few more concert recordings and special reissues.

Blue Oyster Cult singer Eric Bloom said that even though ... And we do have a lot of songs that are appropriate for the creepy holiday.” The band has been around since 1971 so the ability ...