From their first hit, “Do You Want to Hurt Me,” to their last, “I Just Wanna Be Loved,” the English new wave band Culture Club has dabbled in various styles and genres as one of the most recognizable brands in the world, singer/songwriter/producer Boy George and his former bandmates have made their mark on pop…
One of the hottest bands that have been around since 2007 is Florence and the Machine. Many fans adore the band for Florence’s powerful vocal performances and eccentric song production. The English indie rock band was formed by vocalist Florence Welch, and is composed of three other members namely, keyboardist Isabella Summers, guitarist Rob Ackroyd…
Martin Scorsese directed Goodfellas. It is based on the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi. Like many other Scorsese pictures, it stars Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. Ray Liotta plays the main character, Henry Hill. Early in the movie, Hill says, “as far back as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to be a gangster….
Bathory was a band that defined heavy metal scenes in the 1980s and bands like Venom and Hellhammer. Their first four efforts were often considered classic Venom worshiping albums until 1988’s Blood Fire Death, where they took on their sound and style. Q Magazine once named them ” the Scandinavian metal scene.” The band has…
Dear and beloved metalcore band Every Time I Die from Buffalo, New York has announced their, quite untimely, breakup and simultaneously broke the hearts of countless hardcore fans. While Every Time I Die wasn’t the biggest band in the world, they had one of the strongest and largest communities and fan bases that I have…
Posture and The Grizzly are perhaps among the most interesting, solid, and underrated bands I have ever had the pleasure of discovering. Personally, I don’t exactly remember when or how I found Posture and The Grizzly but as I’ve always been a fan of more obscure music, I never found an audience within my friends…
Kid Rock began his career as a rapper with the hip hop group The Beast Crew in the late 1980s. At the age of 17, he signed a solo deal with Jive Records, releasing his debut album, Grit Sandwiches for Breakfast, in 1990. Although his style was initially characterized by a hip-hop heavy sound, later…
Rise Records was always a record label known for signing bands early on before they became a worldwide success, and most of the time the label has been able to hold onto those artists as they rose in popularity. Earlier this year, regardless of what plans the pandemic had for music recently, Rise Records was…
Saturday Night Live, mostly or more easily known as SNL, is famous for a few different things from their willingness to make jokes on rough topics quickly to choice in hosts and musical guests and some things in between. Not to say that SNL hasn’t had controversial artists on the show to perform or host…