Rock Books to Look Forward to in 2025
With the 2025 holiday season upon us, it’s time to start gift-giving. If anyone on your shopping list enjoys a good book about music, you’re in luck. In the past calendar year, a slew of rock-related books have entered the…
The Best Rock and Metal Albums of 2025
Here are the 51 best rock and metal albums of 2025. We’re officially more than halfway through the decade. It’s already produced its own crop of new ascending stars and quite a handful of veterans who are defying the legacy…
’90s Grunge Lyrics That Are Unbearably Painful
Here are five painful lyrics from the ’90s grunge era. The grunge movement of the early-to-mid-1990s produced some of the most emotionally raw and culturally significant music in modern rock history. Emerging primarily from Seattle and the West Coast, bands…
Music Truth Exploration: Uncovering the Story Behind It
Stories that seem impossible, and often untrue, about celebrities have existed for as long as there have been famous people. However, as you will discover in the following countdown of Rock Music’s 25 Craziest Conspiracy Theories, this type of superstar…
’90s Rock Radio Hits Identified by Their Opening Lyrics
How well do you know the opening lyrics from these hit rock radio songs of the 1990s? You’ve likely heard these songs in this quiz hundreds of times and probably hummed or sung along subconsciously. But do you REALLY know…
Post-Breakup Album Battles of Rock’s Most Famous Artists
When a famous rock band splits in two, it is inevitable that the next albums released by each camp will be compared to each other. Sometimes there are clear winners. Sometimes, both sides triumph. Quite often, the formerly feuding parties…
16 Guys Associated with the Fleetwood Mac Singer
Some things about Stevie Nicks are undeniable – she is one of rock’s most distinctive voices, she is an entrancing presence onstage and she is unquestionably a woman of passion. Over the years, that passion has presented itself through songs,…
9 Rock and Metal Albums Perfect for Horror Movie Adaptations
There are some rock and metal albums that would make fantastic horror movies. Heavy music and horror share many overlapping themes and symbols. Metal bands, in particular, often draw inspiration from horror imagery in their music, live performances, and overall…
Blues Rock’s Survival: 7 Key Acts from the 1980s
While synths and new wave brought in the decade and glam metal closed it, there were still plenty of acts championing a blues rock sound and thriving in the 1980s. In looking back at the roots of rock ‘n’ roll,…
Supertramp Albums Ranked from Least to Most Impressive
Much has been made of the polarized songwriters at the center of Supertramp’s best music. Without Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson’s contrasting styles and their shared commitment to the band’s albums, Supertramp’s history could have turned out quite different. From…
Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground Albums Ranked Best to Worst
It didn’t take long for Lou Reed to outgrow the Beach Boys cash-ins he was making as a contract artist and songwriter and head toward more fertile land. By 1965, he had met John Cale, and the pair started working…
Rock Stars Who Served in the U.S. Military: 16 Notable Figures
On the very first Armistice Day on Nov. 11, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson addressed the country. “To us in America,” he said, “the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died…