Red Hot Chili Peppers is one of the biggest bands in alternative rock history. But it hasn’t always been easy. Line-up changes, delayed success and personal demons have all threatened to derail the California group. The payoff, however, involves RHCP albums and…
Radiohead Albums Ranked
May 11, 2023
Radiohead has been, since the early 1990s, possibly the most revered alternative rock band in the world. New albums are global events, fans dissect lyrics, and critics pour over their collective admiration.
It couldn’t have happened to a nicer… and stranger…
Blur was as British as colonialism, Queen Elizabeth, and 5 o’clock tea. Blur was also the most commercially savvy of the Britpop bands, jumping from one style to another and making ranking their discography difficult.
Blur was middle-class, while Oasis was…
Top 10 Red Hot Chili Peppers Songs
May 7, 2023
Top 10 Red Hot Chili Peppers songs are a bit like pearls down in the ocean. It’s full of them down there. But you probably don’t need more than ten of them to be happy.
Am I confident that I will be able to choose the ten finest, most elite tracks out of the…
Cage the Elephant is a one-band party guerilla who makes the blues sound like the Olympics Opening Ceremony, and grand alt-rock songs feel like anthems to self-loathing. The Kentucky band wears many highly colorful hats, and they nab hits like they’re Elvis in the…
Why Everyone Hated Creed (Or Pretended They Did)
April 28, 2023
Creed was the fulfilment of a prophecy. It spoke of a band that would look and sound like Pearl Jam but outsell them and get their kitschy music videos featured heavily on MTV. They’d sell millions of records. But nobody would admit to buying one. They would be hated…
Eve of discontent: Paul Bergmann and Tribes
April 27, 2023
Tribes – Hard Pill
Similar artists: D.I.D, Spector, The Crookes
Genre: Grunge. Garage Rock, Alternative Rock
Guitar music is at its best when the songs created in this style attempt to reveal some kind of universal truth. There are a few things we all have in…
Manic Mondays: Ingrid and the Ministers & Orca Station
April 27, 2023
Orca Station – Alas
Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
Similar artists: Nirvana
Look, there’s a right way and a wrong way to sound like you’re a favourite band. And it has little to do with the actual sound that you’re producing. Instead, it has a lot…
Arctic Monkeys Albums Ranked
April 26, 2023
Arctic Monkeys are the fulfillment of the collective dreams of British rock critics and music fans. They’re a guitar band that writes clever three-minute singles, they dress nice and haven’t ditched their English accents yet. Arctic Monkeys’ albums ranked…