The 5 best selling pop-punk bands of the 90s
October 14, 2019
Few genres are as beloved by music critics as punk rock. While the genre has always shifted in and out of the underground, the 90s were a time of great commercial appeal for punk rockers. A select few crop of bands sold a colossal amount of records. Others, rarely the same…
Top 100 Greatest Bassists of All Time (In My Opinion)
November 27, 2025
The most underrated member of a band is, almost without fault, the bass player. Then again, the reason why a band’s sound works or not will typically be the ability of the bass player.
Hidden behind the greater crowd-pleasers of a band, the singers, lead guitarists…
A Mess and Self Torque Reviewed
November 18, 2025
A Mess – I Wish Me a Merry Christmas
Ugh! A terrible time is upon us, and you’re about to feel it more acutely than most if you happen to be a music fan and record collector. It’s that time of the year when, seemingly, every single pop and rock singer starts…
Top 100 Greatest Rock Songs of All-Time
July 14, 2025
The greatest rock songs of all time innovated, bewildered and inspired passionate reactions. The greatest rock songs of all time are played loudly and in near-perfect rotation on oldie rock stations, devoted rock fans’ playlists and in the struggling music shops still…
Ween was a marvelously accomplished band with a bizarre sense of humour. Guess which one worked in the group’s advantage? The duo spent the 90s, seemingly, releasing classic album after classic album. Yet, they’re best known for one song that was featured on a…
The greatest rock singers possess, essentially, the courage of lion tamers, the sensitivity of romantic poets, not to mention pipes that would distress dogs in a nearby city. Rock singers are a special breed in themselves. And, while there have been plenty of great ones over…
Song Story and the Meaning of the Lyrics to “Killing in the Name” by Rage Against the Machine
June 15, 2025
Rage Against the Machine may have been a successful rap-rock band signed to a major label. But the band advocated for nothing other than a Revolution across the Americas, and turned impressionable fans into left-leaning political activists. None of the band’s songs is…
Top 10 Songs by Tom Waits
May 31, 2025
Tom Waits seemed to arrive fully formed straight out of a Jack Kerouac novel. He was an eccentric beat poet who wrote gin-soaked piano ballads before turning his attention to incorporating avant-garde elements into his musical short stories. All of these things, against the…
The greatest guitarists of all time are musicians who didn’t just dazzle with their fretwork but were also constant innovators who inspired others to pick up the instrument. Some of them got on the radio, many of them didn’t. Some of them got to play their riffs…