Live Exclusive: Rise Against's "Blood To Bleed" From Hurricane Festival

Chicago punks Rise Against took the stage at Germany's famed Hurricane Festival back in June, treating the packed crowd of hardcore fans to a set mixed with past favorites and songs from their new album, Appeal To Reason. In this live exclusive, we have Tim McIlrath and his band of politically minded rockers performing "Blood To Bleed," from their 2004 album Siren Song of the Counter Culture. Click above to check out the video.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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