Their breakthrough album, Smash, remains one of the best-selling independent records of all time and solidified their status as punk rock mainstays. With a career spanning over three decades and numerous chart-topping singles to their name, The Offspring continue to be a domin...
Their breakthrough album, Smash, remains one of the best-selling independent records of all time and solidified their status as punk rock mainstays. With a career spanning over three decades and numerous chart-topping singles to their name, The Offspring continue to be a domin...
Since its founding 45 years ago by Richard Foos and Harold Bronson, Rhino Records has established itself as the gold standard in catalogue music. Though much has changed over the decades, the label still maintains a prodigious schedule of releases which has lately encompassed such top-tier titles...
Wilson, who nurtured punk through his role presenting and selecting bands for the TV show So It Goes and who brought the world Joy Division and New Order as co-founder of Factory Records. The Manchester label’s mission was to resist the centralizing dominance of London in the music ...
and turned into a modern, yet much better looking, interpretation of the Three Stooges including half-naked wrestling matches, hilarious nickname reveals and drinking the oddest concoctions imaginable in one cup. I will not confirm that the star of much of the hilarity centered around one ...
TODD HODNE'S CRIMINAL RECORDS IN LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK He had always been, as his former girlfriend said, persuasive. It was one of the things besides his strength that made him so dangerous. Now, by Thursday morning, he had been free...
The records that made the decade, starring Kendrick Lamar, Grimes, Bon Iver, Solange, Lana Del Rey, and many more
one of the worst Presley films. Though it’s helmed by frequent Elvis formula pic director Norman Taurog, the screenplay itself is a bomb. The writing is sillier and the gags are cornier than usual. Scenes with three bumbling policemen—echoes of The Three Stooges—are even painful to watch...
I’m less surprised about the results than I had anticipated, and know far more of these records than I had expected to know. The poll does not of course claim to be a new canon for the 21st Century, but alongside the other three polls, it should offer a few pointers to those lookin...
” The Wolf had the biggest roar in Chicago blues — he raved in a fierce growl, backed by explosive playing from guitar geniuses Willie Johnson and Hubert Sumlin. His 1959 debut album has some of the meanest electric blues ever heard, cut for Chess Records, from the eerie railroad drone...