• Ryan Adams Shares Haunting 'My Wrecking Ball' Music Video [WATCH]

    It's been a pretty busy couple of weeks for alt-country singer Ryan Adams. In the past month alone he's released two EPs and a full-length album, and today, he's shared the music video for one of his album's songs, the Springsteen-esque "My Wrecking Ball," which you can check out below.

  • 8 Songs About Working (Or Hating Your Job)

    If there's one thing that most rock fans can relate to, it's despising your job (or in some cases, not even having a job). In celebration of Labor Day tomorrow, here are eight songs about how tough and irritating most jobs can be.

  • 12 Legends Covering Songs By Other Legends [LISTEN]

    It's pretty common for an up-and-coming artist to cover a song by a legendary artist to get themselves going, but there have been many times where these covers of classic songs have come from other legendary artists. Here are 12 legendary artists who have covered other legendary artists.

  • 7 Cover Songs That Sound Nothing Like The Original

    Though most cover songs remain pretty much faithful to the original arrangement, an interesting cover song should take the basic elements of the original and build something entirely new and unique out of them. Here are seven cover songs that sound nothing like the original.

  • Bruce Springsteen's 'Outlaw Pete' Inspires Children's Book

    Bruce Springsteen has sung about hundreds of great characters in his songs throughout the years, and some of them have even inspired works of film (see: Sean Penn's 1991 directorial debut The Indian Runner, which was based on Springsteen's "Highway Patrolman"). Now, one of Springsteen's songs has inspired, of all things, a children's book.

  • 13 Albums That End With Their Title Track

    An album's title track is inevitably given more weight than the album's other songs, because it's natural to assume that the one song the entire album s named after must be something special. However, these artists chose to place even more weight on these particular songs by choosing to close out the entire album with them.

  • 14 Albums That End With Their Longest Song

    Long songs can be tricky for an artist to deal with. They can't really be released as singles, but they also run the risk of ruining the flow of an otherwise great album. These artists got around this problem by placing their extremely long songs at the end of their album.

  • 8 Albums Named After Their Cover Songs

    When you put a cover song on an album of otherwise original music, it's typically the sort of thing that's tucked away somewhere deep into the tracklisting and not really highlighted. However, these artists felt that their cover songs were so important to the fabric of their albums that they made them the title tracks. Here are eight albums named after their cover songs.

  • 6 Lo-Fi Albums By Big Rock Stars

    One of my favorite genres of music is lo-fi, or "low-fidelity," meaning artists who record their songs onto cheap equipment. Though most lo-fi artists are DIY musicians who work outside of the mainstream and use cheap equipment out of necessity, there are still some highly successful rock stars that have chosen to go lo-fi for aesthetic reasons, or simply out of convenience. Here are six lo-fi albums that were recorded by big rock stars.

  • Performer Gets Jail Time for Conning Investors with Fake Charity Album

    If this album was for real, it would've been worth well more than the price of a typical compilation album. However, it wasn't real. Portland musician Kasey Anderson was sentenced to four years in prison for convincing investors that he had assembled a superb set of acts for a charity album, and thus robbed them of more than $600,000.

  • Jack White Covers Lorde's 'Royals' In Concert [WATCH]

    It looks like Jack White has joined Nirvana and Bruce Springsteen on the list of rockers who think Lorde is pretty cool. At a show in Milwaukee last night, July 21, White performed a cover of the New Zealand pop star's massive hit "Royals." As of right now, the only video footage of this performance is a brief, blurry video posted to Instagram, but it's definitely enough to get the picture and realize just how strange this must have been for the audience. Pitchfork reports that White has also performed covers of Jay-Z's "99 Problems" and the Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog" during previous stops on his current tour.

  • 6 Great Songs Originally Done In Different Styles

    Some chord progressions, lyrics, and melodies just lend themselves to a particular style of music, but sometimes an artist plays around with a few different styles before finding one that fits the song best. Here are six great songs that were originally done in different styles.

  • 6 Music Videos That Feature Imagery From The Album Cover

    An album cover and music video are often separate entities with separate imagery. The artist might appear in both, but they're usually doing different things, or at least wearing different clothes. However, these six music videos ended up incorporating imagery directly from the album cover.

  • 9 Albums Where Most Of The Songs Were Singles

    The main point of releasing a single is to convince audiences to go out and purchase the entire album, but some albums end up being so successful that most of the songs end up being released as singles. Here are nine albums that were mostly made-up of singles.
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