Hybrid Theory, the debut full-length from multi-platinum rock band Linkin Park, celebrates its birthday today. Right out of the gate, this album was a true gamechanger in making rap-rock a commercial cash cow – but it’s the songwriting and chemistry that worked for Linkin Park from day one. Rejected by labels several times over, LP…
12 years ago, a legend left us. Elliott Smith didn’t want to be famous – it’s likely the pressure of success that drove him to heavy drug use. But he left behind a string of commercially and critically successful albums like XO, Either/Or, and Figure 8. Having grown up with his music (though experiencing the…
Jay-Z is without a doubt one of the world’s most influential artists, but no one would have really understood how powerful he was until he acquired a European startup and transformed it into one of today’s leading music companies, spearheading a Tidal revolution, or at least what he believes to be a revolution.
With their first full-length (Behind The Devil’s Back) in Lord knows how many years releasing 10/16, now is as good a time as any to discover, or rediscover, UK post-hardcore/progressive/alternative rock juggernauts, Fightstar. Their debut full-length, released in March of 2006 (!!!), was (and still is) a cornerstone of UK post-hardcore, coming up right around…
