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Chris Cornell had one of rock's most formidable voices while also being a prolific songwriter, leading artists from various genres to cover his work.

This article was originally published in SPIN on November 25, 2013. Way back in the mid-1980s, when the disco gods appeared over the…

Years before Bruce Springsteen delivered Western Stars in June 2019, rumors circulated that the Boss was working on a record that would swap rock’n’roll for…

Here are the 30 best disco songs that shaped the sound in the YouTube era. Don't stop 'til you get enough.

No one captured the sound of nu metal's malaise and primordial damage as adeptly and disturbingly as Korn.

In the late 1970s and 1980s, Elton John released inconsistent albums, with a few great songs on each of them, annually or biannually. Like the…

Can a rock concert change the world? Yes. For the better? Not necessarily.

Yesterday, May 8th, marks the 40th anniversary of The Cure’s debut album, Three Imaginary Boys. Last Thursday, May 2nd, marked the 30th anniversary of their…

If you think of Bruce Hornsby only as a mulleted late-‘80s smooth-rock lifer, making music somewhere off the coast of Sting’s solo career, then you haven’t…

My Chemical Romance were ridiculous, but on purpose, and with purpose.

Repeatedly, in interviews during his later career, Scott Walker said that the thrust of his lyrics defined his approach to writing music. "The lyric dictates everything…

This week, to mark what would have been Townes Van Zandt's 75th birthday, Fat Possum Records released Sky Blue, a posthumous album of previously unreleased recordings from…

They came from Soundcloud. They came from the Spotify recommendation algorithm. They were the breakout artists that weren't, the crossover stars who didn't, the A-listers who could've…

This year gave us a Post Malone song we wish we didn’t like so much, a bunch of Kanye music we wish we liked more,…

No escape could last long enough in 2018, a year when the odds—political, social, environmental—seemed more daunting with each passing day. Still, there was music…