Feeling drained this Monday? Let The Beatles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Queen give your work week the energy it needs.

Welcome to the 36th Songs of the Week of 2025. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because I was up in Washington, D.C. last Thursday and Friday covering a couple of shows, including Miki ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the ...

A big month for the big guns. Cardi B is back in business. Zach Bryan played the biggest ticketed show in US history, playing to over 112,000 people in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The KPop Demon Hunters ...

In August 2002, Good Charlotte offered a bit of eat-the-rich prescience with their single “Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous.” “If money is such a problem / Well, they got mansions / Think we ...

Once an artist or band releases a song into the public, they have little to no control over how the public perceives it, which certainly seems to be the case for these classic rock hits that listeners ...

In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...

SHE STARTS UP PRETTY EASY AT ALMOST 60, THIS RED CORVETTE STINGRAY STILL RUNS LIKE A CHAMP. DON’T WRECK IT WITH THE ORIGINAL 327 ENGINE. FUN SOUND OWNER JIM BAIRD, A RETIRED ARMY MAJOR AND COMMERCIAL ...

Here is a ranking of the five best progressive rock songs over 20 minutes long! The “epic” song has been a staple of progressive rock since the subgenre began in the late 1960s. Aside from the usual ...