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If someone wants to become a musician, the very first step most people take is learning an instrument. However, these five singers found incredible fame and success, despite the fact that they have very little experience (or in some cases, no experience at all) playing a musical instrument. -
8 Songs That Were Last Minute Additions To Classic Albums
There's no way of knowing how many classic songs we'll never get to hear. Maybe the writers don't think they're good enough to release, or maybe they never received the right publicity. These eight songs came very close to never being heard, and were only included on their albums at the last minute. -
7 Pairs of Albums with the Same Title: Which Is Better?
A while back, I wrote an article comparing songs that happen to have the same title. Though two songs sharing the same title is fairly common (I could rewrite that list many times over with new songs), two albums sharing a title doesn't happen nearly as much. Let's unfairly compare some albums whose only similarities are their titles. -
8 Albums That Open with Their Best Song
The tracklisting for an album can make or break the listener's opinion of it. If an album doesn't open powerfully enough, the listener might not even make it through the rest of the songs. These eight albums got around this problem by placing the best song right at the top. -
Six Lead Vocalists Who Don't Write Their Own Lyrics
It's totally reasonable to assume that each member of a band writes his or her own parts: the guitarist writes the guitar parts, the bassist writes bass lines, and the vocalist writes the lyrics. However, there are some rare cases where someone in the band other than the vocalist writes the lyrics. Here are six examples of bands whose vocalists don't write their own lyrics. -
7 Classic Albums That Were Recorded Extremely Quickly
In an era where My Bloody Valentine takes 20 years to record an album, it’s easy to forget that recording a good album doesn’t need to take a very long time. In fact, some of the greatest albums of all time were recorded in no time at all. Here are seven classic albums that were recorded extremely quickly. -
7 Achingly Beautiful Songs By Metal Bands
Heavy metal is a lot of things to a lot of people: brutal, exhilarating, cathartic, but "beautiful" isn't really one of the first words to come to mind when describing a metal song. This doesn't mean that metal bands are incapable of writing beautiful songs, though. Here are seven incredibly beautiful songs written by metal bands. -
Beats Audio in Business of Making Hits with Commercial Soundtracks
We're not ones to cheat and look at Super Bowl commercials ahead of time, but we couldn't help ourselves when we heard Ellen DeGeneres revealed her Beats Audio commercial early. -
Led Zeppelin, David Bowie and Neil Young Vie for Best Rock Album at 2014 Grammys [VOTE]
Music Times assesses who should win and will win the Grammy for Best Rock Album. -
Black Sabbath, Killswitch Engage among Top Best Metal Performance Nominees
Music Times considers who should, and who will, win the Grammy for Best Metal Performance on January 26. -
Black Sabbath's Classic Ozzy Albums Available on iTunes
Black Sabbath's been on a bit of a tear recently. The group is up for several Grammys when the ceremony takes place next weekend, it's announced a second leg of its tour in support of 2013's 13 album, and Converse is even releasing a sneaker that's Sabbath themed. What else could a fan ask for? -
Black Sabbath, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin Winners at Classic Rock Awards
Music awards shows are always hot, and some music just never gets old. Hence the existence of the Classic Rock Awards, we presume. Some of the biggest bands in, well, ever, took home the biggest prizes at the ceremony, which was held Thursday at the O2 Arena in London. -
Reading and Leeds Gives Hints on Bands to Play Festival During 2014: Sabbath? Clapton? Yuck?
The Reading and Leeds music festivals may have ended just more than a month ago, but organizers have gotten a jump on scheduling this year's festivities. Chief organizer Melvin Benn told NME that his group has already booked two of next year's acts, and are well on their way to getting the third. -
Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi Weigh In (Pun Intended) On Why Bill Ward Couldn't Partake in Black Sabbath Reunion
Ozzy Osbourne added some clarity, and some levity to dark humored people, when he commented further on original Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward being unable to tour and perform with the group for the original lineup's reunion: the percussionist is overweight. -
J Mascis Of Dinosaur Jr Covers Daft Punk, Neil Young, Black Sabbath With The Roots On Jimmy Fallon [VIDEO]
J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. sat in with The Roots on Jimmy Fallon last night and -as I guess can happen when you have a legendary band backing you up every single night- it was paid virtually no mind. Aside from the plugging of Dino Jr's...
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