• 10 Songs With Spoken Word Guest Spots

    When someone performs a guest spot on another artist's song, you can usually expect him or her to sing, or play an instrument, or even contribute a rap verse. However, these 10 songs feature guests performing spoken word contributions.
  • 8 Great Albums With Intermissions

    Just like plays or even particularly long movies have intermissions somewhere in the middle, some albums include songs that could be seen as intermissions, or dramatic breaks between the album's two halves. These album intermissions are usually instrumental and sonically quite different from the rest of the songs. Here are eight examples of albums with intermissions.
  • 14 Album Covers With An Illustration Of The Artist

    Sure, a photograph of the artist is probably the simplest route to take when designing an album cover, but a painting or a drawing can sometimes proves to be far stranger. Here are 14 album covers with an illustration of the artist.
  • Damon Albarn: Blur's New Album May Never Come Out

    Being one of the busiest people working in music, Damon Albarn was bound to drop the ball on at least one of his projects. Unfortunately, he seems to have dropped the ball on his most anticipated project of all. In a new interview with NME, Albarn admits that the new album he started recording with Blur last year may never actually be finished, taking most of the blame for it himself and his inability to write enough lyrics in time.
  • 7 Alt-Rock Bands Whose Debut Albums Are Their Worst

    There are many classic debut albums throughout rock history, such as R.E.M.'s Murmur or the Strokes' Is This It, which found success because the band had plenty of time to tweak and perfect the songs before stepping into a studio. Some debut albums, however, sound far less confident and even derivative, as if the band hadn't nailed down its own sound yet. Here are seven alt-rock bands whose debut albums are their worst.
  • 8 Bands That Never Appear On Album Covers

    Though finding bands that didn't appear on their own album covers was a pretty difficult task back in the '50s and '60s, bands have explored many different styles of album artwork as time progressed. Here are eight bands that have never appeared on their album covers.
  • 5 Musicians With Two Equally Famous Bands

    Plenty of musicians join more than one band throughout their careers, but most of them end up being associated with just one band. That's why Paul McCartney is always referred to as a member of the Beatles, and not a member of Wings. However, there are some artists who are lucky enough to have been members of two different bands that are equally as famous or influential. Here are five artists that are equally known for two different bands.
  • 5 Lead Singles That Misrepresent Their Albums

    Choosing an album's lead single can be tricky. It should be a great song (but not the album's best) that accurately represents the sound of the album as a whole. However, these five artists chose lead singles for their albums that didn't quite sound like the album's other songs. Here are five lead singles that misrepresent their albums.
  • 6 Albums That Sound Totally Different From Their Predecessors

    Most artists worth listening to tend to slightly change up their style with each release, and sometimes this results in the artist sounding completely different today than it did when it first started (hello, Radiohead). However, some artists forego this gradual transformation and instead entirely change their sound with just one album. Here are six albums that sound totally different from the one that came before it.
  • 6 Artists Who Have Released Album Trilogies

    For most rock musicians, the full-length album is the highest artistic statement in the medium, the equivalent of a novel for a writer, or a feature-length film for a director. Just like novels and films, specific albums within an artist's catalogue are sometimes designed as trilogies, with certain musical and lyrical themes. Here are six artists who have released album trilogies.
  • 7 Alt-Rock Songs About The Artist's Hometown

    A huge part of a person's identity is based on the place where they come from, so it's inevitable that musicians are going to explore this idea in the songs they write. Here are seven alt-rock songs about the artist's hometown.
  • 8 Classic Alt-Rock Albums and Their Original Titles

    Very few things in music are presented in their original, unedited forms. Songs, as well as albums, are often re-written and re-structured over and over again before they're finished, and this is often the case with artwork and titles as well. Here are eight classic alternative rock albums that weren't released under their original names.
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