The crab cake – that humble patty of seafood – becomes something transcendent in their hands, a perfect expression of ...

awkins is on stage now in leather trousers, lobbing his mic back and forth at the crowd: “I say Sunder, you say LAND!

Built in 1873, this landmarked upstate New York property, known as Bearsville Record House, holds a place in the history of ...

Meat Loaf performing in London, 1987(Image: Michael Putland/Getty Images) When US rocker Meat Loaf undertook his chaotic tour of rural Ireland in 1990 he had a series of narrow escapes. He was ...

On this day (October 21) in 1977, Meat Loaf released Bat Out of Hell. The album was the result of multiple years of work with songwriter Jim Steinman. Produced by Tod Rundgren, the theatrical LP ...

Often hailed as one of the greatest rock concept albums ever, Bat Out of Hell’s impact on the music world likely caught Meat Loaf by surprise when it was released 47 years ago today. The LP would ...

Meat Loaf is still being remembered for his role in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” 50 years after the musical comedy’s premiere. Richard O’Brien, who created “Rocky Horror” and starred as the ...

In 1977, the album “Bat Out of Hell” introduced audiences to the dynamic new singer Meat Loaf and composer Jim Steinman and went on to become one of the best-selling albums of all time, with more than ...

How do you make an American classic like meat loaf a bit more . . . Texan? You treat it like a giant enchilada. Specifically, a truck stop enchilada, by drowning it in a chili gravy and melting a ...

Unless you were really into classical music or on a Broadway kick at the time, it might have been hard to get your head around Meat Loaf's “Bat Out of Hell” in 1977. It was like nothing else, a ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Conventional ...