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Soundgarden, Rage Against the Machine, White Stripes among 2023 Rock Hall nominees

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announced its class of 2023 nominations. Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, White Stripes, Missy Elliott, and more are among the nominees.

How Soccer Mommy's new album Sometimes, Forever made her go bigger and bolder

SOCCER MOMMY — AKA SOPHIE ALLISON — IS ONE OF Gen Z’s brightest voices, a 25-year-old beacon mining through a familiar world of industry apathy and internal, contradictory forces. On her new record, Sometimes, Forever, there’s a give-and-go between distance and desire, misery and joy; full-hearted ballads bleed delicately into thoughtful, doomy concertos. Allison pumps […]

3rd Secret (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden) share live performance video from Seattle—watch

New supergroup 3rd Secret have shared a video of their first live performance. Check out the band playing “I Choose Me” below. Krist Novoselic (Nirvana), Kim Thayil (Soundgarden) and Matt Cameron (Pearl Jam, Soundgarden) announced 3rd Secret April 11. They also released their debut self-titled album the same day. Read more: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden […]

Motionless In White, the Interrupters and 7 other things you need to check out this week

Check out The Latest — for all the essential new music, tickets and livestreams you need right now. Poppy’s Veeps livestream is a must-see If you haven’t seen Poppy on her Never Find My Place tour, now’s your chance. Veeps is bringing the artist into your home May 26 with a one-night-only livestream recorded at […]

Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden members form new band 3rd Secret, drop album—listen

Bassist Krist Novoselic (Nirvana), drummer Matt Cameron (Pearl Jam, Soundgarden) and guitarist Kim Thayil (Soundgarden) have formed a supergroup called 3rd Secret. Additionally, they’ve already released a self-titled debut album. Read more: The Interrupters announce new album ‘In The Wild,’ share “In The Mirror”—watch The band also includes guitarist Bubba Dupree (Void) and singers Jillian Raye […]

These 15 songs took on completely new identities from their original demo

Demos are a great way for listeners to peer into the creative process of their favorite musicians. As an artist’s vision comes to fruition, demos serve as the solidified rough draft of a song. They can show us the painstaking mental labor that comes with writing new music. They also portray the auditory and lyrical […]

11 bands and genres that prove Black Flag are a continued influence

“When Damaged came out, it perfectly represented the depths and darkness of my particular teen angst,” Adam Grossman, guitarist for Angkor Wat, Skrew and Ministry, tells Alternative Press. “It was the soundtrack of my life at that point in time.” Any musician involved in the most extreme forms of musical expression owes their existence and […]

These 15 classic albums made 1996 a crucial year in punk history

1996: President Bill Clinton was squaring off against Kansas Sen. Bob Dole in a successful bid for a second term in the White House. On April 3, former math professor Ted Kaczynski was arrested in his remote Montana cabin, suspected (correctly, it turns out) to be American domestic terrorist the Unabomber. Conservative public policy bulwark […]

15 music producers who made major career moves with their early work

In the music world, everybody has to start somewhere. While a producer’s early albums are their proving ground for a bright future in the field, they also need luck on their side to find a successful band and a scene-changing album to springboard the rest of their career into the stratosphere. From legendary production masters […]

10 legendary bands who built the foundation of the grunge genre

Despite the grousings of certain members of punk’s first generation, grunge most certainly earned its place on rock’s historical timeline, the perfect antidote to the cliche-ridden joke hardcore became fairly quickly: Everyone attempting to run the 100-yard dash in two seconds? Why not take a nice, leisurely stroll, instead? Most know that meat turns out […]

Evanescence know every lesson learned since 'Fallen' has been worth it

From the time that Evanescence formed in 1995 to the present, the group have never had to sacrifice their focus or collective talents on “finding their voice” unlike so many other rock ’n’ roll acts of their magnitude. Instead, Evanescence erupted with frontwoman and founder Amy Lee at the helm. Boasting a mezzo-soprano vocal range […]

Taylor Momsen had to fall in love with music all over again just to survive

In May 2017, the Pretty Reckless were riding the crest of a wave. In celebration of their third album, Who You Selling For, the New York rockers landed an opening slot for their musical inspirations and friends Soundgarden on their U.S. leg. Just hours after their show at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, the band […]

10 Sub Pop Records releases that set the stage for modern grunge

When Evergreen State College student Bruce Pavitt began his Subterranean Pop fanzine in the early ’80s, covering American independent bands and recordings, he had no idea he would virtually invent an entire rock genre. He was just looking to earn a course credit at the freewheeling Olympia, Washington, higher education outlet. But the ‘zine had […]

Jack Osbourne's mental health struggles began before 'The Osbournes'

Jack Osbourne recently sat down (virtually) with Lily Cornell Silver and opened up about his struggles with mental health and time on The Osbournes. As many of you already know, the success of The Osbournes took Sharon, Ozzy, Jack and Kelly by surprise. However, the overwhelming media spotlight on Jack during that time eventually caused […]

20 albums from 1996 that mark some of the best of the decade

The year 2021 stands out for, at the very least, two distinct reasons. One, we all simply could not wait for it to get here and to promptly put the horrific year that was 2020 in our collective rearview mirror. And, two, it’s the year that some of the best albums of the ’90s will […]

10 albums from the ’90s that need to be listened to front to back

Interestingly, some of our favorite albums ever recorded always seem to have one or two, if not more, tracks that we can just do without. The songs we hit the forward button on robotically, just as the one before it fades completely or comes to its triumphant cymbal-smashing final note. We have conversations about how […]

Love And Death are doing everything they can’t do in Korn and Breaking Benjamin

It’s been nearly eight years since Love And Death’s last album, Between Here And Lost, but the project’s return couldn’t have come at a better time. With scheduling difficulties being cleared due to the pandemic, Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch, longtime collaborator and Breaking Benjamin guitarist Jasen Rauch, J.R. Bareis and Isaiah Perez have finally […]

Chris Cornell's iconic 'Superunknown' guitar is up for auction

Soundgarden‘s 1994 album Superunknown is not only the band’s most successful album to date, but it also marks a true triumph for rock music in the 90s. Now, a piece of history from that album era is officially up for grabs. The guitar Chris Cornell used to record the iconic album is being auctioned off. […]

QUIZ: Which ’90s grunge album should you listen to?

It’s fair to say that 2020 makes us miss live music more than ever. But it certainly may make many people miss the era of shredding guitars and strained grunge vocals that’s characteristic of ’90s music. Alternative fans of the decade would walk through record shops, mosh at basement shows and even stage diving from […]

Record Store Day's Black Friday clearly saved the best releases for last

We hope you saved some money because Black Friday is Record Store Day’s final shopping event of 2020. If your toes don’t curl at the breadth of this month’s selections, well, do you even like music? There are plenty of great titles being reissued on the vinyl format for all of your post-Thanksgiving wonderment. Here […]
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