The BFG shows also feature a more organic sound, particularly comparing Layton's stripped-down, club-friendly kit to the one ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard uses to replicate the band's digitized post- ...

The band has released 15 studio albums, four live albums and six compilations albums. Combined, they have sold over 50 ...

A chance to see a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer up close and personal packed the house Tuesday night at Jergel’s Rhythm Grille ...

Today, we look at ZZ Top's 1973 album, 'Tres Hombres.' There are generations of music listeners who know ZZ Top as those funny guys with beards and fuzzy guitars who sing about long legs and sharp ...

Gibbons, chieftain of the Lone Star rock ‘n’ roll trio ZZ Top since its formation over 55 years ago. But the long proclaimed “little ol’ band from Texas” is not the sole vehicle for Gibbons’ mash-up ...

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 ...

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 ...

With trash can drums and mop handle guitars, the Hoover brothers – Mitchell, Winifred and Bruce – helped me form a ZZ Top cover band ... chart-busting Eliminator album a couple years earlier.

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Billy Gibbons, the vocalist-guitarist of ZZ Top, will embark on a solo tour this month with his band, the BFGs ... releasing his debut album, “Perfectamundo,” that November.