Also ranks #1 on The Best Punk Blues Bands Also ranks #2 on The 100+ Best Garage Rock Artists, Ranked 9 Minor Threat 721 votes Minor Threat, hailing from Washington, D.C., emerged in the early 1980s as a driving force in the hardcore punk movement, with their inten...
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oversold—closer to truth is that they were bang on time, sounding somewhere between neighboring predecessors the Stooges and New York’s The Dictators—but it was striking for the era that they shared the same “whiteboy” influences (notably the Who) as those and other proto-punk bands. Th...
Gentrification and real estate greed were not necessarily hot topics for rock bands to tackle in early 2001, but then Fugazi always have stayed ahead of the curve. Years prior to the final build-up and burst of the housing bubble, Ian MacKaye and company used “Cashout” to forcefully quest...
rock gods’ more prog-oriented impulses, influenced as it was by classical composers such as Bach, and nodding towards Samuel Barber’s Adagio For Strings. Luckily, the song rocked much heavier than a string quartet, and it saw Muse become one of the best 2000s bands, as well as the ...
For example, the cult-like nature of the Grateful Dead's Dancing Bears or Dave Matthews Bands' Fire Dancer. Your band logo needs to be visually appealing and representative of your band, so it can be worn proudly. With this in mind, you want your fans to proudly rock your branded t-...
Here, our staff goes beyond the hits of '00 to look at the deeper cuts that also endure: The album tracks from the year's best LPs, which prove just as essential as the official singles and radio hits they surrounded 20 years later.
the Red Hot Chili Peppers consecrated their spot as one of the most notorious bands in the L.A musical scene after this release. The track peaked #6 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks charts. The tune hasn’t been performed since 1990 after its 32 presentations during the Mother’s Milk...
It’s never a bad time to celebrate boy bands — as pure a pop fixture as exists, with classic songs and timeless tropes that have resonated for well over half a century, with no sign of slowing down soon. But with one of the best all-male pop groups of the 21st century about to ...
When a song is influential enough to make the list but was made by someone with a toxic past, it’s noted in the write-up. Thanks to high profile tours from bands like My Chemical Romance and Paramore, the reunion of Blink-182 and the upcoming emo-heavy When We Were Young festival ...