4+ day, 45+ min ago   (638+ words) How ‘Whip It’ Turned Devo’s De-Evolution Theory Into New Wave’s Sharpest Concept That Eric Alper Devo began as a theory before it ever became a band, which is a fairly unusual way to build a career in rock and roll....

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (356+ words) 70000Tons of Metal has revealed the first 30 bands for its 2027 voyage, with Arch Enemy, Exodus, Hammerfall, Moonspell, Primal Fear, Uli Jon Roth and Wolfheart among the acts heading into the Caribbean for four days of heavy metal at sea. The festival…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (696+ words) How ‘Ghosts’ Turned Art Rockers Japan Into an Unlikely Chart Sensation That Eric Alper Picture a group of schoolmates from Catford picking up instruments mostly as an excuse to avoid actual homework, then somehow ending up as the most quietly…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (416+ words) Bukszpan’s approach treats those differences as essential to understanding why the Big Four label endured. These were not four interchangeable bands moving along the same path. They competed, intersected, borrowed from the same scenes and reacted to many of the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (412+ words) That accessibility was exactly what made them powerful. A sticker could serve as promotion, protest, identity marker or invitation into a community, depending on where it appeared and who encountered it. Pasted onto lampposts, record bins, street signs and venue…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (403+ words) Coheed and Cambria are expanding one of their longest-running fan traditions into something much bigger, turning Neverender from a tour and cruise concept into a full festival built around one of the band’s most beloved records. Neverender Festival takes over…...

3+ week, 10+ min ago   (661+ words) That Eric Alper U2 opened the Sphere in 2023 and never left the building. They ended up playing 40 shows there, bringing in an estimated $244 to $256 million. That’s what one band made without ever loading a truck onto a highway. Billy Joel took…...

3+ week, 13+ hour ago   (508+ words) Savatage sounded dangerous in 1990, caught at the exact point where crushing heavy metal was colliding with the theatrical ambition that would transform the band’s music. That version of the group has finally been preserved on ‘Madness Reigns From The Gutter…...

3+ week, 21+ hour ago   (431+ words) Triumph built their reputation on the kind of songs that sounded designed to reach the back row of an arena, and ‘The Best of Triumph’ puts 10 of those defining tracks together in one place. Released in June, the collection reaches…...