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Before 2005, seeing “Sum 41” and “Congo War” in the same sentence was the last thing anyone would expect. In those days, the words “Sum...
Kristen Pfaff was a key innovator of the Minneapolis sound of the 90s with her band Janitor Joe. She came from a musical family, studied piano and...
Members of Austin-based Japanese punk trio Peelander-Z are still recovering in the hospital after suffering “traumatic injuries” in New Mexico....
On May 26, 2017, beloved grunge vocalist Chris Cornell was laid to rest at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The Soundgarden frontman died by suicide on May...
The following three albums were released in the hardcore punk scene of the 80s. But they remained relatively underrated at the time. Even the most...
While the 80s are sometimes considered a bit stale in terms of groundbreaking album releases, the later years produced some great work. Inching toward...
On May 25, 2004, Avril Lavigne followed up her successful debut album with a second offering that predated the emo pop boom by several years. Under My...
Raise your hand if you keep forgetting Blink-182 put out an album before Dude Ranch. Okay, maybe that album brought them their first influx of fans,...
We’ve traveled to 1998 and looked back at 1994, but what about the late 80s? What album releases defined the year 1988? More than you’d think,...
On May 21, 2026, Harry Styles admitted to a room full of important people in the British music industry that he lost his virginity while listening to...
35 years later, and Public Enemy is still fighting the power. And not only that, because in 2025, Chuck D and Flavor Flav put their money where their...
October 1992 marked the beginning and end of Nirvana’s history in Argentina. The band was playing a show on October 30 at a 50,000 capacity venue in...
On May 15, 2026, The Strokes took to social media to share some disappointing news for longtime fans. The indie rock pioneers have a new album in the...
A history lesson on pop’s biggest boy bands wouldn’t be complete without mentioning Lou Pearlman. In the 90s, he helped launch arguably the two...
So many great album releases happened in 1994. But similarly to the Great Album Releases of 1998, there were a few that defined that year. They were...
On May 19, 1998, the soundtrack for the highly grossing but ultimately disappointing film Godzilla was released alongside the movie. Despite the...
On a summer day in August 1993, producer Rick Rubin presided over a public gathering of music’s best and brightest in Los Angeles. A funeral was...
When we think of psych-rock, we think of Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, and Grateful Dead. Fleetwood Mac, occasionally. Pink Floyd, definitely. They all...
The 90s were a huge decade for album releases, but 1998 proved to be singularly important. That was a great year for everything from trip-hop to indie...
May 18 is a dour day for grunge and post-punk fans alike. In 1980, it was the day Ian Curtis of Joy Division died by suicide. 37 years later,...
The Smashing Pumpkins’ 1998 album Adore was a striking deviation from their previous three releases. Coming off the back of Mellon Collie and the...
David Bowie had a long legacy of being a creative chameleon, slipping in and out of different identities like coats. His entire career was like that....
The emo revival evolved off the back of third-wave emo, beginning in the late 2000s and extending into the 2010s. There’s that whole joke about emo...
Shoegaze often feels like a distinctly ’90s genre, with many albums even sounding dated. But there are still those that have stood the test of time....
By 1991, Nirvana was just about ready to break into major commercial success. They played Reading Festival that August, just a month before Nevermind...
Debuting in 1976, The Ramones didn’t exactly burst onto the punk rock scene. More like, they handcrafted it from scratch to influence punk...
Today, May 14, David Byrne turns 74. To celebrate, why not queue up these four deep cut Talking Heads tracks? While Byrne has created an extensive...
FKA Twigs has been in varying degrees of a trademark dispute with indie duo The Twigs since 2014. As of May 2026, the issues have escalated, and there...
A mathematical study conducted at Viterbo, Italy’s University of Tuscia has found evidence that jazz and classical music structures have become...
The disturbing trend of fans throwing various objects at artists as they perform has continued, and the latest victim is Oli Sykes of Bring Me the...
On May 13, 1996, Oasis released “Champagne Supernova” as the final single from their second album, What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, released...
On May 11, Kendrick Lamar fans noticed something strange on Apple Music. Without explanation, his 2024 album GNX had disappeared from the streaming...
Former Beastie Boy Mike D is making some solo moves for the first time, dropping a debut single and announcing several shows. After MCA died in 2012,...
In May 1977, the Sex Pistols finally found a record label that would stick with them through their more unsavory antics. The U.K. punks signed with...
There are several familiar album anniversaries in May 2026. But the following three indie rock releases are a bit more underrated. For longtime fans,...
In May 2011, a Led Zeppelin t-shirt sold on eBay for a staggering $10,000. That’s usually the kind of money that gets thrown around at auctions for...
The Red Hot Chili Peppers sold the rights to their entire music catalog for the second time. In 2021, the band sold the publishing rights to their...
First of all, I’d like everyone to know that the following cringey rock songs were sourced from a personally curated playlist called “music for...
On May 8, 2001, Sum 41 debuted with a pop-punk explosion unmatched since Green Day’s Dookie. Perhaps that’s a slight exaggeration, but at least...
On May 8, 1965, Bob Dylan and D.A. Pennebaker went into the alley behind London’s Savoy Hotel and filmed one of the first music video concepts. At...
In January 2010, Haiti was hit by a catastrophic earthquake, leaving behind devastation and death on a scale that’s difficult to grasp to this day....
When Radiohead released “Creep” in 1992, it wasn’t initially the smash hit, era-defining song it’s considered today. Upon release, it was...
On May 7, 2024, the music world mourned the loss of legendary recording engineer Steve Albini. His work on some of the most iconic ’90s albums...
When Nirvana rose to fame quickly after Nevermind, there was often talk about selling out, that the band had become too mainstream. This, of course,...
On May 6, 1995, Oasis had their first No. 1 hit in the U.K. charts with “Some Might Say”. This single received overwhelming critical acclaim, and...
In the latest music marketing saga, the popular Reddit subreddit r/indieheads has banned record labels from its community. Moderators investigated an...
These three artists were ahead of their time when they first emerged. In a lot of ways, they remain out of time, tapping into eccentricities,...
In the spring of 1996, Dolores O’Riordan accepted a public apology and more than $6,000 from The Daily Sport. An often explicit U.K. tabloid...
On May 5, 1984, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders and Jim Kerr of Simple Minds got married after their bands toured together that year. They’d been...
With his gravelly vocals and quick-witted rhymes, Adam Yauch—better known as MCA—was a crucial member of the Beastie Boys. The trio balanced each...
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