Co-founders Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman, both formerly of Operation Ivy, brought their musical prowess and passionate, socially-aware lyricism to the forefront on seminal albums like Let's Go and ...And Out Come the Wolves. As flagbearers of the punk rock resurgence i...
Things move fast in the world of the. When they first arrived in Britain a year ago, it seemed likely they’d make a debut album fixated on the simple art of fucking. Instead, ‘Fever To Tell’ is more complicated: seeking to explain love, sex and the remarkable, brittle, sometimes di...
John Cooper Clarke is an English performance poet, who first became famous as a "punk poet" in the late 1970s. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums. Around this time, he performed on stage with several punk and post-punk bands and continues to perform regularly...
Even in the group's earliest days, The Stranglers owed more to the Doors than they did to the Stooges, and they were really only a punk band by association. Yobbish, borderline-offensive songs like "Peaches," however, soon gave way to an oddly poppy post-punk sound that often made ...
Also ranks #29 on The Best Bands Named After Songs and Albums 83 Altered Images 236 votes Altered Images were an early 1980s Scottish new wave/post-punk band. Led by lead singer Clare Grogan, the band branched into mainstream pop music, and had six UK Top 40 hit singles and three Top...
46 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and received positive reviews from critics, with many publications praising Willow’s spirited preservation of pop-punk, from her emotive delivery to the blaring, angsty instrumentation. It’s since been named to a number of year-end lists of the best ...
“Golden Girl” herself at the forefront. Included inPaulina, which peaked at No. 1 on both the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, the track kicks off with a laid-back guitar loop that serves as the canvas to Rubio’s raspy voice and her honest lyrics: “I’m not that ...
At a time when cocky pop-punk bands ruledTRL, Brendan B. Brown’s band Wheatus offered a more self-effacing, though still rocking, alternative with its song for all the losers out there, “Teenage Dirtbag.” Brown’s high-pitched voice — a little Bon Scott, a little Geddy Lee — walk...
stomping behemoth crushing forests and towns beneath its feet. Blending post-rock, math rock and intense grooves, the Belfast four piece’s debut album put a fist through the wall of the genre. WhileASIWYFAwould go on to push instrumental and musical boundaries on their later al...
Homework (1997) - Daft Punk 15. The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld (1991) - The Orb 16. Screamadelica (1991) - Primal Scream 17. Dummy (1994) - Portishead 18. Irrlicht (1972) - Klaus Schulze 19. Music for the Jilted Generation (1995) - The Prodigy 20. Play (1999) - ...