As a founding member of Big Star, Chris Bell helped craft hugely influential, criminally underselling songs. The band’s impishly named 1972 debut album#1 Recordwouldn't be celebrated as a classic for years. Bell left Big Star prior to the follow up, as he concentrated on a solo career w...
With lush prog-rock keyboards, well-sung vocals, and catchy songs, Ghost ignored metalcore and deathcore; there were no growls or guttural vocals at all, no downtuned guitars, no breakdowns or blastbeats. Their melody-filled songs were deceptively catchy, and have only gotten catchier on subse...
In fact, The Beatles penned the basis for more than 4,000 cover versions of their songs through the years. One of their most popular tracks, "Yesterday," almost never saw the light of day—McCartney found it so easy to write that he thought he had stolen it from someone. It would go...
In fact, The Beatles penned the basis for more than 4,000 cover versions of their songs through the years. One of their most popular tracks, "Yesterday," almost never saw the light of day—McCartney found it so easy to write that he thought he had stolen it from someone. It would go...
The original success of Slash's debut solo release, which featured Ozzy Osbourne, Fergie, Chris Cornell, and Myles Kennedy among its guest vocalists, helped kickstart Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, one of Slash’s other musical projects. Slash and co are currently on a tour that takes th...
means and all the possibilities of that,"Chris Cornellexplainedin an interview. "Then coming up with an image that he liked. Like going with the philosophy of, maybe when you die and you've been good enough in your life then you get to go somewhere that you remember that was really ...
means and all the possibilities of that,"Chris Cornellexplainedin an interview. "Then coming up with an image that he liked. Like going with the philosophy of, maybe when you die and you've been good enough in your life then you get to go somewhere that you remember that was really ...
One of the weirder hit songs of the ‘90s, “Lump” was penned by Presidents singer Chris Ballew about a benign tumor he had and the vision of a woman’s body in a swamp. Grungy hooks, incredibly catchy and a stellar start to the band’s mid-to-late ‘90s string of radio songs....
Drummer Matt Cameron went on to join Pearl Jam the following year, and frontman Chris Cornell put out his debut solo album,Euphoria Morning,the next. "I think that what caused us to split apart, rather than just take a hiatus, was just that Soundgarden had become a business," Cornell rec...
READ MORE: The 32 Songs Avenged Sevenfold Have Never Played Live Warner Bros.Are Avenged Sevenfold Christian/Are Avenged Sevenfold Religious? These were two highly-searched questions, so we decided to combine them into one category in order to address it. Because of some of the biblical themes ...