Anyone who spends even a small amount of time listening to rock music should be familiar with Layne Staley, the frontman or the group Alice in Chains. He was active with the band from the time that they did their first album up until 1996. Unfortunately, he was also plagued by a lifetime of crippling…
The Ramones were a punk rock band formed in New York City in 1974. In their early days, the band’s success was limited, but they were considered influential in the punk rock genre. However, they went on to become one of the most successful bands of all time. All the band members took on pseudonyms…
Festivals aren’t a new thing. People have been coming together to celebrate music, food, literature, and 101 other things since time immemorial. But it was in the second half of the 20th century that the music festivals of the kind we know today got their start. First, there was the Newport Jazz Festival. With its…
The Deftones are a prominent and influential rock band that formed in Sacramento, California. They released their debut album, Adrenaline, in 1995 and were quickly hailed by critics as one of the most important and exciting bands of the 1990s. The Deftones were originally a glam metal band, but after the departure of founding guitarist…
Dreamworks scheduled an April 10 release for the Trolls sequel, “Trolls World Tour. However, COVID 19 cases topped one million on April 2, so the release was postponed. On April 28, the Wall Street Journal reported, “Last month, as the nation’s movie theaters, were days from closing down, executives at Comcast Corp.’s CMSCA 1.08% Universal…
Dio was a heavy metal band that lead vocalist Ronnie James Dio formed in 1982. He had originally been a member of Black Sabbath and wanted to form his own group. Dio took Black Sabbath’s drummer Vinny Appice with him. They chose to call the band Dio because Ronnie James Dio was already well known…
Hawthorne Heights are a band at the forefront of emo. Emo was obviously a genre and a word that was just thrown around to match anything dark. While most fans of Emo music would usually disagree with this, Hawthorne Heights were certainly a staple in the genre. Having lost their signature unclean vocalist after the…
The Moody Blues are one of the most influential bands in music history, having sold upwards of 70 million albums worldwide. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018, which is just icing on the cake for a band that has had a tremendous impact on music from the ’60s…
The Cure have been a hugely influential rock band for the past thirty years. They have been in the forefront of musical evolution from gothic rock to synth pop and new wave, and their ever-changing musical styles have influenced countless bands. The Cure’s album sales have had a total of 30 million sales worldwide and…