As a gay, black teenager growing up in Corpus Christi, Texas, Kevin Abstract struggled to find his place. Then he started posting music online, connected with some like-minded kids, formed a collective, and moved to…
Greatest hits albums have been around since the late 50s. Johnny’s Greatest hits was the first greatest hits album, peaking at number one on Billboard’s Best Selling Pop L.P.’s chart. The two top-selling greatest hits…
Jerry Cantrell is best known as one of the founding members of hard rock band Alice in Chains. Initially recruited as the band’s guitarist, his extensive musical talents soon saw him emerge as the key…
Hollywood Undead was founded in June 2005 in Los Angeles, California. According to Ace Showbiz, the group’s name was picked from a song called The Kids. The co-founders of Jorel “J-Dog” Decker and Aron “Deuce”…
The eighties and nineties rock scene was an era with so many greats you could practically throw a stone in a crowd and hit a fantastic band, but only some of them went on to…
There’s nothing cheesy about a little clapping. And by clapping, we’re not talking about applause on live tracks. We’re talking about the kind of deliberate claps artists use to punctuate, drive, shape, and form their…
Nathan Jonas “Joey” Jordison was born on April 26, 1975, in Des Moines, Iowa. Most of his childhood was spent in rural Waukee. During this time, he became interested in music. Looking back, he feels…
1966 was a pivotal year in every possible sense of the word. Everything began changing, and people were becoming more socially and politically active. There were massive shifts in power in the United States government,…
John “Johnny Rotten” Lydon was born on January 31, 1956, in London, England. After being expelled from a Catholic Secondary School, he attended Hackney & Stoke Newington College, where he met Sidney “Sid Vicious” Eudy….