Thus it was that the 1983 ZZ Top album Eliminator offered a dance-floor friendly sound via locomotive rhythms, even as the band still brought the hard-rocking thunder. The album was named after a ...

When ZZ Top came ... into the Top 10. Ten years later, they slapped a bunch of synth-driven pop rhythms on top of their beer-soaked rock ‘n’ roll and scored the biggest album of their career ...

Billy F. Gibbons is, and will always be, the frontman for ZZ Top. But a decade ago he started his own side group, the BFG's ...

Elsewhere, the fluent ease with which Waitin’ For The Bus ceded ground to Jesus Just Left Chicago (both from their 1973 album ... one of ZZ Top’s better visits to London. As the band unfurled ...

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Acclaimed singer-songwriter ZZ Ward is back with ... Leading the charge is the album’s first single, “Love Alive,” available now alongside its striking music video. Drawing inspiration ...

The “Sharp Dressed Man” of 1983, Billy F. Gibbons, will still don his signature beard when he performs with Mike Flanigin and Chris Layton Tuesday at the Vilar Performing Arts Center. Though ...