Walking in Circles, Back to Square One: Foo Fighters' But Here We Are It would have been easy for Dave Grohl to walk away from the Foo Fighters forever after 2022. That’s what I expected him to
In the Gardens and the Graves: The Wasted Talent of Doug Hopkins The ‘90s alternative scene had no shortage of tragic figures. The era produced rock stars who were exceedingly flawed. Music media seemed to glorify the
Old Bands Making New Music: Metallica's "72 Seasons" Metallica’s 11th studio album, 72 Seasons, was released worldwide this morning after a few months of hype and promotion. The band announced the new
Merch Madness: How I Infiltrated the Concert Poster Community (or... How I Became a Huge Concert Poster Nerd) It’s 90 degrees on a Sunday morning in St. Louis. I’m standing on line outside the Enterprise Center, home of the NHL’s
To Daisy, With Love: MTV’s Top 20 Video Countdown and the Turning Point for ‘90s Alternative You might not know it if you tuned in today, or anytime in the last twenty years really, but the main function of MTV used
The Biggest Metal Band in the World...and 50 Bands That Are Better than Them We need to talk about Ghost. Who are Ghost, you might ask? They are currently the biggest metal band in the world, according to the
King Missile and the Greatest (Alt Rock) Short Story of All Time Alternative rock, by its definition, counters the mainstream pop-oriented rock that dominated airwaves through the 1970s and 1980s. For those decades, the term seemed to
Little Secrets: A Long, Strange Trip With Hidden Tracks Let’s take a trip to a magical time called the 1990s. You just got home from Nobody Beats the Wiz with your favorite band’
The Bullet with Butterfly Wings Effect: The Rise and Fall of The Smashing Pumpkins The Smashing Pumpkins are one of the seminal bands of the 1990s. They hold a special place in my heart as being one of my
Getting Loaded: A Retrospective on Load and Reload Metallica is one of the undisputed greatest metal bands of all time. Their meteoric rise from the underground San Francisco thrash scene in the early
