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  Features5 months ago

  ‘Hey Lawdy Mama’: Steppenwolf Rock Up A 1930s Jazz Tune

  Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Jack McDuff and many others recorded 'Hey Lawdy Mama' before Steppenwolf rocked it up.

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  Features7 months ago

  ‘At Your Birthday Party’: Steppenwolf Light The Candles

  More rock-leaning than the band's previous work, the album was their first to feature Nick St. Nicholas on bass.

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  Features7 months ago

  ‘The Second’: Steppenwolf Were Born To Be Even Wilder

  Within nine months of Steppenwolf's debut album came 'The Second,' and this time it was gold in just four months.

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  Features7 months ago

  ‘I Miss Your Sad Virginia Whisper’: A Tribute To Sweet Gene Vincent

  Ten period quotes about, and by, a unique and much-loved rock'n'roll original.

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  Features9 months ago

  ‘Monster’: Steppenwolf Single Takes Them Into The 1970s

  The band's 'Monster' LP brought them another gold disc and, on December 27, 1969, a new Hot 100 entry from it.

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  Features11 months ago

  ‘For Ladies Only’: Steppenwolf’s Proto-Feminist Statement

  'For Ladies Only' was the title track single from the band's last new album before they split in 1972, ahead of a successful reunion.

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  Features11 months ago

  Steppenwolf’s Jerry Edmonton: The Man With The ‘Born To Be Wild’ Beat

  He passed away at just 47, but the drumming of Steppenwolf's backbone left a permanent mark on rock fans from the late 1960s onwards.

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  Features12 months ago

  ‘The Second’: Nine Months On, A Swift Steppenwolf Sequel

  Not only did the band's sophomore set repeat the gold certification of its predecessor, it became the highest-charting of their US career.

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  Features12 months ago

  ‘Magic Carpet Ride’: Steppenwolf Pile Back Onto The Hot 100

  The song became the group’s second and last Top 5 entry in the US, and their longest-charting single.

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  News2 years ago

  Radio City Music Hall To Screen ‘Easy Rider’ With Live Rock Score from Roger McGuinn, John Kay

  T- Bone Burnett has been enlisted to direct the musical performances.

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  News4 years ago

  Death Of Goldy McJohn, Founding Member Of Steppenwolf

  Goldy McJohn, a founding member of Canadian hard rockers Steppenwolf and the keyboardist who played on their biggest hits has died aged 72.

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  Features5 years ago

  Steppenwolf’s Chart Farewell

  This week in 1987, 'Rock & Roll Rebels' placed Steppenwolf on the Billboard 200 chart for the final time.