Van Halen’s Diver Down was a masterclass in making a lot out of a little. The band had only itself to blame for the rushed circumstances of its
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Why ‘Tumbling Dice’ Was Like ‘Pulling Teeth’ for Rolling Stones
INXS rebounded from a creative lull with their 10th album, 1997’s Elegantly Wasted — only to see it all come crashing down due to a
50 Years Ago: Electric Light Orchestra Debut, Then Splinter
King Buzzo didn’t let negative reviews stop him from believing in the Melvins’ Hostile Ambient Takeover. “Lots of people hate it. It got some really
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
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