If there was ever a singer who knew how to weave a good tale, it was country artist Tom T. Hall. His sharp observations and ability to find the extraordinary in the mundane won him the nickname of “the storyteller,” not to mention 12 No. 1 hit singles, a series of awards, and a place…
Travis Mills, or as most may have known him, T. Mills, was once a seemingly constant rising star but eventually the rapper transformed into more of a personality that kept the music at his roots with everything else he chose to conquer. Aside from the music, Travis Mills has shown a clear evolution throughout his…
Michael “Mike Will Made It” Len Williams II was born in Marietta, Georgia, on March 23, 1980. Although his earliest aspiration was sports instead of music, he found out early in life that he was highly talented, even dropping out of college to pursue his dream of becoming a hip hop artist. Throughout his career,…
Some bands make very good careers out of repeating the same album over and over again. R.E.M. made a similarly good career out of never making the same album twice. Over 15 albums, they touched on everything from post-punk to jangly pop, low-fi to glam rock. It’s something that always made them incredibly exciting to…
In 1993, Toni Braxton exploded onto the scene with her self-titled debut studio album. It was a major hit, taking her to No. 1 on the Billboard 200, earning 3 Grammy Awards, and selling over 10 million copies worldwide. Over the next decade, her career went from strength to strength, with songs like Breathe Again…
Michael Bolton’s musical career initially started in the mid-1970s where he recorded music as the lead singer for the American rock band Blackjack. In the late 1980s, Michael Bolton had a stylistic change in music and became more famous for the pop-rock ballads that he released after that. Over the course of his incredible career,…
Don Williams was always more than just another country artist. He was a legend, connecting with audiences in a way few of his peers could dream of and resonating with each new generation in turn. Between 1973 and 1991, every single one of his singles except one cracked the Top 20 on the country charts….
The legacy of the Doors may have been overshadowed by the death of their frontman, Jim Morrison, at the age of 27, but without them, classic rock would be a very different thing. Between 1967 and 1971, the Doors released six studio albums. Not all of them are masterpieces, but they each contain enough gems…
In 1992, No Doubt released their eponymous debut album. No one heard it. Three years later, they released The Beacon Street Collection, a ska-infused album that managed to sell triple the number of copies of its predecessor. Then along came Tragic Kingdom, a diamond-certified million-seller that sent the band stratospheric and spawned a string of…