There are a couple of acts that will never, ever allow anyone to sample their work. The first is AC/DC. The second is The Beatles. So how did a Beatles sample end up
Read MoreOkay, okay, okay! I hear you! Lemme make some amends here. In spring 2026, I set out to explore alt-rock one-hit wonders. It was a five-episode series in six parts (very Hitchhiker’s Guide
Read MoreAn album can be both tremendously influential and a commercial failure—at least at first. Here are a two examples. The Clash’s London Calling came out in December 1979. It didn’t officially sell 500,000
Read MoreBlink-182 drummer Travis Barker had his psyche completely wrecked on September 19, 2008, when he was in a fiery crash of a private plane in South Carolina. He barely survived with severe burns
Read MoreThere are plenty of strange conspiracies in the music world, with a large number of them having to do with Kurt Cobain. Some people believe that Kurt faked his death and assumed a
Read MoreRecord charts can be strange things, but few things are weirder than the tale of a 1979 song called “Ready’n’Steady” recorded by an artist only known as “D.A.” What makes it weird is
Read MoreAs far as we know, The Clash, one of the greatest punk bands of all time, ceased to exist sometime in the mid-1980s. The end began on September 10, 1983, when Mick Jones
Read MoreAs of 2026, there are something like 250 million songs available to the streaming music services. How do we even begin to wrap our heads around a number like that? Well, the first
Read MoreIn January 1996, Bono and his family were on vacation as guests of fellow musician Jimmy Buffett. Buffett had been extolling the awesomeness of genuine Jamaican jerk chicken, so the decision was made
Read MoreThe early days of punk were anything-goes times. The idea was to do virtually everything differently, especially you could be extra strange and provocative. Enter The Cramps, a New York-based band that was
Read MoreIf you’re into the White Stripes and Jack White and you’re looking for the Holy Grail of those songs, you want a 7-inch single released on October 3. 1998, released on Italy Records,
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