The best LGBTQ anthems of all time, from the diva allies to the queer artists making Pride music gold.
Their gimmick was that of anti-social punks who specialized in hardcore wrestling and brawling. They were noted for their distinctive all-black "street look", which, while very commonplace among today's wrestlers, was vastly different from the colorful attire of their wrestling peers of the late...
The Leipzig Conservatory, which he founded, became a bastion of this anti-radical outlook. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and antisemitism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his creative originality has been re-evaluated. He is now among the...
In 2004, Rolling Stone published its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It’s one of the most widely read stories in our history, viewed hundreds of millions of times on this site. But a lot has changed since 2004; back then the iPod was relatively new, and Billie Eilish ...
And with those iconic words from the powerful 1993 anti-domestic violence statement “U.N.I.T.Y.,” Queen Latifah cut through all the misogynistic noise. This was nothing new for New Jersey’s own Dana Owens: With her essential 1989 debut album All Hail the Queen, she not only ...
After years of anti-corporate sentiment, Jawbreaker became labelmates with Weezer and Beck on DGC — and then made their final album, Dear You, with Dookie producer Rob Cavallo. “People weren’t into that major label record, to put it mildly,” Brandon Stosuy wrote in a glowing Pitchfork ...
Vietnam – for reasons he considered to be self-serving. In a 2001 interview withUSA Todayhe explained it was “supposed to be a pacifistic song against war,” adding, “It’s not an anti-war song. It’s speaking against what Eisenhower was calling a military-industrial complex as he ...
Ace of Spades is one of the great rock songs of all time. But the album? There’s more to it than just the most iconic Motorhead track. Love Me Like a Reptile and Shoot You in the Back marry with Ace of Spades to form a zero-fat start to a shot-of-adrenaline album. Over and ...
All those prissy critics outraged by Powell’s shift into voyeuristic overkill with ‘Peeping Tom’ should have done their homework: from the perverted ‘glue man’ and his ‘sticky stuff’ in ‘A Canterbury Tale’ through the abusive, alcoholic anti-romance of ‘The Small Back Room’, his ...
ills, from the war machines to guys with bad taste in footwear. They also inspired punk metal with the title track, one of the few (pre-Motörhead) heavy rock classics under three minutes. Buried treasure: “Hand of Doom,” perhaps the strongest anti-heroin statement that metal ever ...