Bob Dylan’s foray into writing his own original music happened piece by piece. He’d only just begun to attach the word “songwriter” to his title
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By 1982, country music legend Johnny Cash had nothing much left to prove. The youngest inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame a few
During the past 40 years there’s been no shortage of jabs aimed at Motorhead’s fifth studio album. Conventional wisdom has long held that Iron Fist,
Metallica were eager to flex their brawny, return-to-roots thrash attack across much of 2016’s Hardwired … to Self-Destruct, but on the groovy, stomping “Now That We’re Dead,”
Queen released one of the most divisive hits in their vaunted catalog on April 19, 1982, the racy dance track “Body Language.” They’d enjoyed massive
Marilyn Manson was notorious decades before being accused of serial abuse of women. His songs and stage performances were so horrific in the public imagination
Metallica stunned fans and critics with their self-titled fifth album — colloquially known as the Black Album — which pivoted from topical, breakneck thrash metal
It seemed as if Queen had rocked us for the last time as “God Save the Queen” echoed around London’s Wembley Stadium on April 20,
Journey titled their ninth LP Raised on Radio, not Raised on Video — a distinction the band members made very clear. It was 1986, and MTV was in
The more bittersweet Wish delved into common Cure themes of regret and loss, just as 1989’s thunderously melancholy Disintegration had. But this time, Robert Smith