Even if you were born with two left feet, there’s every chance you’ve shaken your booty to Kool and the Gang at some point in your life. Since debuting their first album in 1970, they’ve released some of the funkiest, catchiest, most danceable songs ever committed to tape. Faced with a catalog of hits that…
Consisting of brothers Isaac Donald “Don” Everly and Phillip “Phil” Everly, the Everly Brothers first began singing with their mother and father as part of The Everly Family in the 1940s. In the mid-50s, they began writing and recording independently of their family, earning their first hit song in 1957 with Bye Bye Love. After…
Ever since they emerged as part of the New Romantic scene of the early 1980s, Duran Duran have divided opinion. They inspire intense loyalty in their fans (of which there are many) but tend to draw blank looks or flat-out derision from others. Regardless of whether you’re a lover or a hater, there’s no arguing…
Our ranking of all Three Days Grace studio albums looks at all the albums from this successful band from Ontario, Canada. The band has released a total of six albums, all of which have featured prominently on the Billboard charts. They have also sold millions of records globally, with their first three albums being certified…
In 2006, five teenagers from Sheffield in the UK got together and made a lot of noise. The result was Count Your Blessings, Bring Me the Horizon’s debut album. As debuts go, it wasn’t the most promising. It may have made them heroes to a small band of deathcore devotees, but it failed to make…
At various points throughout her life, Etta James dealt with heroin addiction, painkiller addiction, physical abuse, and incarceration. Rather than being cowed by her experiences, James used them to inform her music, resulting in a legacy of work that, a decade after her death from leukemia at the age of 73, still touches, inspires, and…
In 1986, Poison released their debut album, Look What the Cat Dragged In. With their big hooks and even bigger hair, they immediately carved out a place for themselves as the top party band in hair metal. Over the following decades, they cemented their position with albums that may have left serious metal fans shaking…
Tom Dowd may be the most important technician in the history of popular music. As a recording engineer, Dowd revolutionized the industry. He developed and devised techniques that have become the trade standard including the implementation of eight-track recording, popularizing the use of stereophonic sound, and establishing the design of linear channel faders. “Tom was…
A native of South Georgia, Cole Swindell knew that music was his one true passion from a relatively young age. After leaving college in 2007, he moved to Nashville to pursue his dream. After signing a publishing deal with Sony/ATV Music, Swindell began co-writing songs for Luke Bryan, Craig Campbell, and Thomas Rhett. Swindell started…