The 100 Best Punk Bands of All-Time: Great Rockin' Swindles
December 16, 2024
Punk-rock was an attitude at first, but it was doubled with an eye-catching fashion sense and a good marketing ploy. Then, it very much became a sound – something powerful enough to cut through any speaker and distinguish itself from disco rhythms and grandpa guitar…
Queen - "A Night at the Opera" Reviewed and Revisited
December 14, 2024
Queen was a band that refused humility and simplicity. Freddie Mercury and his colleagues were all about high-minded concepts, long songs, loud solos, and even louder clothes. “A Night at the Opera” was the culmination of those ideas and, to many, Queen’s…
Progressive rock’s emergence represented the moment that rock n’ roll grew up and decided it wasn’t going to merely rely on making people dance any longer. This wasn’t cool music anymore, but it sure was clever. It was book-smart and technically…
The 100 Best Indie Rock Songs of All Time
December 6, 2024
There’s something about great indie rock bands that makes you think of the underdog coming on top or something extraordinary occurring despite the odds. The best indie rock songs of all time are nearly all famous against tougher pop competitors vying for the same chart…
Top 100 Greatest Indie-Rock Albums of the Early 2000s
November 30, 2024
Indie-rock albums often dominated the charts in the 2000s, while bands routinely scored hit singles and influenced fashion trends. That was then, this is now. Does 2000s indie stand up to the scrutiny of time? Many of the albums of the time certainly do. Some of them are…
The Velvet Underground may have failed to find commercial acceptance in the band’s prime but launched a colossal number of tributes and outright imitators just after their dissolution and for the rest of music history from then onward. Furthermore, The Velvet…
“Don’t Cry” made Guns n’ Roses an arena rock band on par with Aerosmith and The Rolling Stones. Having a power ballad do this for a rock band was not a novel strategy. But “Don’t Cry” was, actually, one of the first songs by the band…
From Prog-Rock to Pop, Counting Down The 22 Best Songs by Genesis
September 29, 2024
Genesis’ story is one of incredible artistic and commercial ambition, usually not simultaneously. The band began as a highly innovative and risk-taking progressive rock group before fashioning itself into a pop juggernaut. They made great songs along the way, from the…
Top 11 Rainbow Songs: When Ritchie Blackmore Finally Got His Way
September 21, 2024
Rainbow was the brainchild of guitar magus Ritchie Blackmore and unapologetically an attempt to gatecrash the charts. With the side project active for more than two decades, Rainbow did manage to secure hits and, what’s more, to incorporate trends that varied wildly…