The Killers are a rock band co-founded by Brandon Flowers and Dave Keuning in 2001. Their line-up saw a number of changes, but by 2002, they had settled on their current line-up, which is not necessarily the same as either their recording line-up or their touring line-up. Soon enough, the Killers released Hot Fuss in…
They formed Depeche Mode in 1980 as an English band from Basildon when the British new wave was getting underway. Original members Andy Fletcher, Vince Clarke, and Dave Gahan. Clarke departed early in the band’s history. Martin Gore stepped up as a songwriter for the group. The three put their skills together to develop their…
Mark Knopfler was born on August 12, 1949, in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland. The first song he wrote and recorded was when he was 16, but it never was released. Aside from Dire Straits, he was also in The Notting Hillbillies, who released one album in 1991. He also enjoyed a prolific solo career. He is…
If you have a tendency to listen to a lot of country music, you have undoubtedly heard a lot of Garth Brooks songs on the radio over the years. As a matter of fact, there’s every chance that you even have a few of his albums, if not all of them. Of course, everybody has…
Although the band Greta Van Fleet has been around for almost a decade, it’s only in the past five years that they’ve started hitting the number one spot on the billboards. If you haven’t seen them live, it’s an experience worth writing home about, but you can always listen to the top ten Greta Van…
Over the course of their career, Pink Floyd made 15 albums, five of which topped the UK charts. Not all of them were great (the less said about the post- Roger Waters’ era, the better) but some of them were transcendent, helping to change, shape, and define the face of popular music. For a while,…
Nothing gets the soul pumping quite like songs for speed. It’s these types of pulsating tracks that gets us revved up to the point of no return. Throughout the decades, speed is usually represented with tracks about fast cars. The forceful beats of these tracks represent the thrust of these vehicular beasts as they hit…
Domestic violence is a difficult and sensitive topic to talk about. It is an issue that many people try to ignore, but it needs to be addressed. Domestic violence occurs in every socioeconomic class, race, religion, and culture. It can happen to anyone, regardless of age or gender. The purpose of this article is not…
New York-born Richard Melville Hall was born on September 11, 1965, but was mostly raised in San Fransisco, California, then to Connecticut. At just three days old, his father nicknamed him Moby, directly referencing it to Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick. The story has it the Hall Family are related to the author. Moby…