Less Than Jake is an American band that started in the early 1990s. Genre-wise, they make a mix of ska, pop, and punk. Amusingly, the origin of the band’s name isn’t 100 percent clear. Supposedly,…

Chaka Khan began her career in the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus. In 1978, she released her first solo album, the platinum-selling Chaka. Since then, she’s become one of the…

Parkway Drive is an Australian metal band that has existed since the early 2000s. It took its name from the street where they had their one-time rehearsal space. From there, Parkway Drive built up a…

Singing and songwriting rock songs have been Gino Vannelli’s area of expertise since he was a teenager. While he’s written and performed hundreds of songs over the years, he got his most significant break in…

Dimash Qudaibergen is a Kazakhstan singer and songwriter whose talents are recognized worldwide. He is famously known for his vocal range and has his grandmother to thank for it. She discovered her grandson could sing…

Soundtracks don’t outperform their accompanying films that often, but in 1998, Def Jam’s Rush Hour soundtrack came close. A classic blend of hip hop and R&B, the album climbed to 5 on the Billboard 200…

Jeffrey Dahmer will go down in history as a cannibalistic serial killer who confessed to killing 17 men of various backgrounds. His fascination with death has tried to be explained, with some psychologists reasoning that…

Formed in 2010 out of Baltimore, Maryland is an American hardcore punk band known as Turnstile.  As Turnstile, this five-man band released their first EP (Pressure to Succeed) in 2011 and then their second EP…

Dido is an English singer-songwriter whose career started in the mid-1990s. However, she didn’t become well-known until the late 1990s and early 2000s. First, Dido released her debut album, No Angel, which went on to…