Josh Bradley is Creative Loafing Tampa's resident live music freak. He started freelancing with the paper in 2020 at the age ...

ZZ Top will perform in Shreveport, Louisiana on November 20, 2025, as part of their "Elevation Tour". This Shreveport concert ...

ZZ Top extends Elevation Tour through November with Frank Beard back on drums. New dates include Vegas, Santa Barbara, and ...

James Jamerson's immense contribution to Motown Records in the ’60s and ’70s went largely uncredited – but his game-changing ...

ZZ Top formed in Houston Texas in 1969 and for 51 years kept the same line-up of Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard, until Dusty's death in 2021.. Responsible for a swag of blues rock hits ...

ZZ Top made it back the next year, in what became a historical moment: The band's first show since the death of bass player Dusty Hill.Until his death, ZZ Top had been the longest-running hit band ...

Even though there is a noticeable difference without Hill, ZZ Top still sounds impeccable and Francis' obvious mastery of the bass guitar complements the band's live performances.

ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard is stepping away from the band's tour to manage 'a health issue requiring his focus in the near term.' ... bass player Dusty Hill, died in 2021 in his sleep.

ZZ Top, after all this while, is a known quantity. ... Instead of guitar/bass guitar/drums instrumentation, the BFGs have switched bass duties over to B3 organ.

On stage this month in Indiana, ZZ Top looked back on 50 plus years, revisiting albums like ‘Tres Hombres’ and cuts like “La Grange” as their ‘Elevation’ tour winds down.

ZZ Top performs in California in May. The band will close out Musikfest on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Bethlehem. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer) ...

Last night, ZZ Top descended upon London’s Wembley Arena for their only UK show of the Elevation Tour. Following opening hard rock acts Those Damn Crows and Rival Sons, guitarist Billy Gibbons ...