It was 40 years ago that a tiny country bar in a seedy part of Manhattan compromised its principles, started booking rock acts and altered the course of music history. We're celebrating that ...

Formed as a pop-punk band in the late '80s, Green Day got their start as a part of the San Francisco Bay area's DIY punk scene, but they quickly outgrew it. Soon, they were touring nationally and ...

From the moment the Arctic Monkeys released 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' in 2006, they've been one one of the most buzzed-about bands on the planet. Last year's 'AM' finally ...

No offense, but some people are way too easily offended – especially when it comes to music. While it's true musicians (the relatively famous ones, at least) can make an indelible mark on ...

Because grunge arose from a relatively condensed geographic area: the city of Seattle, and the surrounding area in the Pacific Northwest, many of the musicians involved were actually longtime ...

Just where did we think we were headed back in 1999, right before our calendars flipped over to the new millennium? The future of indie music didn't just seem blurry; it seemed downright ...

If Jack White is on it, you can absolutely judge an album by its cover. His face (clearly visible in the artwork for all but two of the dozen records he's credited for) is like a notarized stamp ...

On May 25, 1977, an unheralded science-fiction epic named Star Wars opened in less than three dozen theaters across the United States. From this modest beginning sprung the most popular franchise ...

'Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me' "Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me / No hope but no harm / Just another false alarm." Oh, how Morrissey loves to mope and sink into despairing ...

When the Smashing Pumpkins released their debut album in 1991, nobody was paying much attention to what Billy Corgan was singing. 'Gish' was all about the guitar noise the band unleashed.

Would you spend $15,000 for a record player that could play your records in a 100 percent analog fashion without ever wearing them down? That's what the Japanese company ELP promises. They sell ...

"What does it feel like to lead a normal working man's life and suddenly find yourself one of the biggest names in show business?" Chicago radio personality Joe Johnson posed that question in the ...