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“We probably have too much melody going on or we’re not quite as turbulent or caustic,” said Disturbed frontman David Draiman. “While I really love that type of music, it’s not what we try to do. If we have to place things in context, we’re more Hard Rock than Heavy Metal.” The countdown from 10…
Paramore singer Hayley Williams was raised in Meridian, MS, where her talent show experience led to commercials. And that might have been the end of it. But the Williams family relocated to Franklin, TN. There she came across Josh and Zac Farro. The brothers played guitar and drums respectively and invited Williams to join their…
Sum 41’s first single, “Fat Lip,” went to #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and became the band’s most successful single. It was the first of several songs to land in the upper reaches of the Modern Rock survey. #10. We’re All To Blame Frontman Deryck Whibley said the lead single from Sum 41’s third album,…
The Offspring originally signed with Epitaph Records. “Ignition” rolled out in ’92 and went gold – shipping 500,000 units. Their next recording “Ixnay On The Hombre”” sold over a million copies but “Americana” chalked up three million in sales. 10. Way Down The Line (Ixnay On The Hombre – 1996) The song depicts a series…
After slaving for years in Generation X, Billy Idol figured it was easy to be a pop star. At least that’s what he claimed. Of course, coming from a Punk background there was a ‘limit” to how far he’d compromise. Essentially, he stopped at mainstream Rock (with goth touches). Aided and abetted by Steve Stevens’…
Always feeling an outsider, Kurt Cobain deliberately tried to separate himself, or at the very least be insulate from the rest of the world. He took up drums but his first musical contribution was hauling gear for the Melvins. That gig led to meeting Krist Novoselic. When drummer Dave Grohl joined the band was ready…
It’s nothing short of ironic that a group that first got noticed for the line “I hope I die before I get old” (from “My Generation”), lasted over fifty years. The Who was one of the few bands not dominated by their lead singer. Roger Daltrey had to compete with the guitar antics of Pete…
Everyone knows the rock beats scissors, scissors cut paper and Metal covers Rock. For decades, emerging bands have covered a popular song in an attempt to draw attention with a familiar song. Limp Bizkit and Alien Ant Farm did that. Others reinvented a song they liked or one by favored artist. Think Disturbed and Guns…
When Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain committed suicide, which also ended the band, bassist Krist Novoselic handled the remembrances. That left drummer Dave Grohl with little to do but wander around in shock. Soon though Grohl locked himself away and recorded the entire Foo Fighters’ debut (except for one guitar track contributed by Afghan Wig Greg Dulli)….
“I think, and this is now with some distance in listening to the records, but on the outside looking in with all earnestness I think Soundgarden made the best records out of that scene,” band vocalist Chris Cornell offered in an ’07 interview. “I think we were the most daring and experimental and genre-pushing… and…