Smash Mouth is an American band that started up in the mid 1990s and has continued into the present time without a single pause. Generally speaking, they are known for their rock music. However, they has shown a fair amount of willingness to experiment within that limitation. Over the course of Smash Mouth’s career, they…
After guitarist Jake E. Lee was fired from Ozzy Osbourne’s band by Ozzy’s wife/manager Sharon, he got to work looking for a frontman to form a band with. The vocalist he eventually settled on was Ray Gillen, who’d recently come off a stint with Ozzy’s old bandmates, Black Sabbath. Together with bassist Greg Chaisson and…
Best known for his reverb-laden rockabilly and crooning vocals, singer-songwriter Chris Issak swept to stardom in the early 1990s as a kind of modern-day Roy Orbison. With a repertoire that includes the likes of Wicked Game, Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing, and Somebody’s Crying, his melancholic, 1950’s style of rock and roll has earned…
Countless rock goddesses have and will continue to enchant audiences throughout time. Girls leaven amps, guitars, and drum kits into the most magical soundscapes. Lita Ford has taken rock music to an extra level, with a remarkable grasp on the guitar and the bass racket. Ford’s volcanic vocals also added a feminine touch to a…
5 Seconds of Summer is an Australian rock band from Sydney. The group consists of lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist Luke Hemmings, lead guitarist Michael Clifford, bassist Calum Hood, and drummer Ashton Irwin. In early 2013, the boys were signed with Capitol Records. They released their first EP in April that year, and it debuted at No….
In the mid-90s, teenagers didn’t have modern high-speed internet, cell phones, streaming services, snap chat, or TikTok. If you wanted music, you had to turn on the radio or go down to the record shop and get CDs. Needless to say, kids were drawn to music shops, and there was none cooler than the fictional…
After a couple of false starts and a few lineup changes, the Bay City Rollers hit the big time in 1974 with their UK top ten single, Remember. Within a year, they were one of the biggest acts in the UK; within two, they were one of the biggest acts in the world. Their time…
When Natural Born Killers hit theatres, it came with a windstorm of controversy. Oliver Stone directed it, and David Veloz wrote the script heavily pulled from one that Quentin Tarantino initially wrote. Throughout the movie, the media turns two serial killers into folk heroes. Perhaps the film would have been more difficult to watch if…
After launching their career in the early ’60s as backing singers, Sonny and Cher reached worldwide attention in 1965 with the release of their mega-selling single, I Got You Babe. Over the next decade, they released numerous other hit singles, broke into light entertainment with The Sonny & Cher Show, and won armies of fans…