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Since Ty Dolla $ign first broke out in 2010, as the hook singer on fellow Cali artist YG's "Toot It and Boot It," he’s been a…

1999 essentially marked the end of the alternative dream floated by punk bands in the '80s, sold by record companies in the '90s, and eventually…

Across the country this Independence Day break, families and Tinder connections on third dates will flock to theaters to see Danny Boyle’s Yesterday,…

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…