Not very many cover bands make it big, but the story f fuel starts with a few guys from Tennessee who formed a band. They had some success and moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1994 under the group name Reel to Real, and they were a cover band. Brett Scallions, the lead singer and longest-standing…
The band known as Boston Manor hails from the large seaside resort within England’s Lancashire County known as Blackpool. Forming in March 2013, the band members are Henry Cox, Dan Cunniff, Mark Cunniff, Jordan Pugh, and Ash Wilson. Their music style features a mix of pop music and punk rock, as well as emo. Their…
George Strait has been the reigning king of country since the 1980s, and he looks in no danger of relinquishing his title anytime soon. A pioneer of the neotraditionalist country movement, he’s credited with steering the genre away from its 80s flirtation with pop and taking it back to its country roots. He’s won more…
John Lennon may have thought the Beatles were bigger than Jesus, but there’s an argument that Paul McCartney, both via his solo material and his work with Wings, turned out to be bigger than even the Beatles. It’s not convincing, but it’s an argument all the same. The Beatles inspired millions of artists, changed the…
The Velvet Underground might be considered one of the most influential bands of all time now, but back in the 1960s, they could barely shift a record. When Velvet Underground disbanded in 1970, frontman Lou Reed moved back into his parent’s house in Long Island and took a job as a typist at his dad’s…
John 5 is a guitarist of note. He picked up his stage name when he joined up with Marilyn Manson. However, John 5 has worked with a wide range of other artists, which isn’t even mentioning his career as a solo artist. As such, it is no exaggeration to say that he has contributed to…
The biggest disappointment in the musical career of Mott the Hoople was that they disintegrated right at the moment when they found success. Overall, the English rock band created a legacy that would influence many bands that followed for decades. From the onset, Mott Hoople’s prospects never seemed to be bright at all. In fact,…
What do you know about American rapper Rod Wave? Born as Rodarius Marcell Green in 1998, he has made a name for himself in a business that tends to gobble people up and then spit them out like yesterday’s trash. How has he done it? Much of it comes down to his ability to make…
He came to fame as a member of post-hardcore band Million Dead, but since breaking away from the band in 2005, Frank Turner has carved out a hugely successful solo career as a kind of modern-day Billy Brag (albeit much posher and with politics that veer more to the right than the left). Having spent…