In North Carolina, Merge Records was just getting its start as an independent record label as the '90s ramped up. Early buzz ...

The 2026 iHeartRadio ALTer EGO will feature performances from Green Day, Twenty One Pilots, Cage the Elephant, Sublime, Good ...

With major A-list anniversaries, overlooked landmark works and everything in between, the past 12 months haven’t been lacking ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

When it comes to the most renowned live albums in rock history, Cheap Trick's 1978 masterpiece At Budokan is consistently listed as one of the best (if not the best). Nearly 50 years since the band ...

The term “alternative rock” evokes an interesting image. At first thought, one may picture emo teenagers or long-haired rock stars smashing guitars. Yet the alternative rock genre is a far cry from ...

In the early 1990s, alternative rock became a dominant force in music. But by 1996, its bubble had burst. Many bands responsible for alternative rock’s rise were selling fewer albums and seemed to ...

There's no question that plenty of hit songs have stirred up controversy over the years, usually over lyrics deemed too scandalous for mass consumption. But back in the early days of rock and roll, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Nine Inch Nails just added a second leg to their North American tour with another stop in Michigan. The 10-time Grammy nominated band, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...

Music theory is one of those things that musicians either figure out easily or struggle with forever. I’m certainly in the latter category, so using unusual time signatures is more or less out of my ...