In February 1992, the state of metal was in a certain weird flux. Glam-metal was still fully entrenched on the AOR airwaves, but now it was sharing airtime with all this new quote-unquote alternative…   Read Story »

Last year, the eminently lovable hardcore pro-wrestling legend Mick Foley wrote a weirdly fascinating Slate article about how he came to become a Tori Amos superfan. In the piece, Foley writes how a…   Read Story »

On 11/4/91, Creation Records released My Bloody Valentine's Loveless. So, that's the day responsible for the warped nature of a large chunk of your record collections! Book it. 20 is the sort of nice…   Read Story »

Metallica officially formed in October 1981, a little while after James Hetfield answered an ad that Lars Ulrich placed in a classifieds-only newspaper in L.A. That means the band turns 30 this…   Read Story »

Until I saw Q-Tip's tweet from last week, I hadn't put together that Nevermind came out the same day as The Low End Theory. How thematically convenient! Both records spawned dozens of imitators and,…   Read Story »

If you started out the '90s playing in a scuzzy stomp-rock band, there's a decent chance that you became a millionaire at some point during the decade. If you were a parent of teenagers, you may…   Read Story »

Guns N' Roses headlined the first show I ever saw. This was July 1992 at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC, the first night of their massive co-headlining tour with Metallica. A couple of weeks later, a…   Read Story »

Jay-Z's sensationally important The Blueprint turned 10 yesterday, and it's an LP that deserves to be celebrated for myriad reasons outside its own obvious musical strengths. But, let's just talk…   Read Story »

Here's a fun fact for you: Pearl Jam's first album Ten actually came out about a month before Nevermind, twenty years ago tomorrow (8/27). Both albums are getting plenty of press-noise for their…   Read Story »

MTV isn't the only '80s rock relic turning 30. Released 7/31/81 (a day before the network's launch) on Journey's seventh studio album Escape, "Don't Stop Believin'" would inexplicably go on to be one…   Read Story »