Back in 1988, Billy Corgan and James Iha started playing sad, Joy Division- and Cure-inspired songs over a drum machine. D’Arcy Wretzky joined them on bass, and the Smashing Pumpkins were born.

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Explore the journey of My Morning Jacket, a band that fuses rock, psychedelia, and country, and recently released their album ...

Several factors play on the importance of Unplugged in the Nirvana catalog and the first is the small size of their studio discography. With only three official studio releases, the Nirvana canon ...

Sometimes, it's all about being in the right place at the right moment. Other times, it's all about a good anecdote. The Violent Femmes' origin story includes elements of both. Still undiscovered ...

Blasphemy. That's the word that shows up most often in the comment section of any list of cover songs deemed better than the original versions (right alongside the ubiquitous phrase, "you forgot ...

From the moment the Arctic Monkeys released 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' in 2006, they've been one one of the most buzzed-about bands on the planet. Last year's 'AM' finally ...

Formed as a pop-punk band in the late '80s, Green Day got their start as a part of the San Francisco Bay area's DIY punk scene, but they quickly outgrew it. Soon, they were touring nationally and ...

Dave Grohl has been influenced by a wide array of artists throughout his childhood and career — including many a hardcore band — but probably none is more surprising than his recent admission ...

Because grunge arose from a relatively condensed geographic area: the city of Seattle, and the surrounding area in the Pacific Northwest, many of the musicians involved were actually longtime ...

Kids may only be exposed to metal music by their rebellious older siblings, but the Cartoon Network show The Amazing World of Gumball is doing what it can to educate the children: In a brief scene ...

"I never fought with Liam at all. Liam was fighting with himself. Right now, he is picking a fight with himself somewhere. I don't suffer fools in any sense at all, but I suffered him more than ...