Contrary to the popular narrative, grunge didn’t appear out of thin air and obliterate the ’80s hard rock zeitgeist overnight. But if there’s a single event that represented rock
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Because of the running motif of fire on Document, singer Michael Stipe suggested that the phrase “File Under Fire” should be printed on the spine
Stardom was never on Bonnie Raitt’s radar. From the beginning of her career, she was mostly concerned with the craft of live performance. “I personally
By the second half of the ’60s, the Beatles had already made two films full of comical escapades and quick-witted mischief. Both 1964’s A Hard Day’s
R.E.M.’s breakthrough 1987 album Document was the culmination of a few things: hard work, experimental tendencies and good old-fashioned trial and error. On Document‘s predecessor, Lifes Rich Pageant, R.E.M.
Radio K.A.O.S. had an often-impenetrable theme, but Roger Waters – and his label – clearly thought a shift to more era-friendly sequencer- and synth-based sounds
Unspoken fears that were guiding David Gilmour’s private and professional lives eventually commingled on the first Pink Floyd single he worked on without Roger Waters.
There’s an understandable weariness to the Pretenders’ biggest Billboard hit, as Chrissie Hynde returns to the rock ‘n’ roll grind with “Back on the Chain
50 Years Ago: A Very Different ‘M*A*S*H’ Makes Its Debut
There were many Frank Zappas: guitar virtuoso, studio tinkerer, writer of raunchy rock songs. But at his core, he was a legitimate composer, with ideas