An album is usually considered to be an artist’s beautiful baby; but sometimes it can also be their ugly stepchild. Deformity, after all, is a part of nature, and the contrast only helps to accentuate the instances of unabashed beauty. Here are 10 artists who vied for some ugliness to really make their albums shine: 10. [...]

Every musician has to evolve.  If the music you put out in 2012 is the exact same crap as you put in 1982, then you’re either an unoriginal, talentless hack, or AC/DC.  It’s expected that your art grows and matures as you grow and mature as well. Some musicians, however, take that idea to the [...]

Ever get Déjà Vu when you’re listening to the radio?  Kind of like you’ve heard the music somewhere before, but you can’t put your finger on it?  Usually, that’s because you have heard the music before and the song you’re listening to is sampling it.  “Sampling” is when you take a piece of one song [...]

Many comedians dabble in music for fun, and very few are serious musicians.  Often a single on a spoken-word comedy album is all the music you’ll get from a comedian.  This list is the Top 10 (11, really) Original Songs by Comedians, not funny covers or parodies of other specific songs.  Okay, smart apples, quit saying Eddie Murphy’s Party All the Time; [...]

In North America, Europe and Oceania, the 1960s was a revolutionary decade in terms of popular music. The industry underwent major changes as rock evolved. Talented musicians from all over the world began to try new techniques and produce a different sound. For this reason, a large number of extremely influential rock and roll, country, [...]

These bands have lost multiple band members as a result of everything from fatal accidents to overdoses… to egos. Other bands might have folded – never to release another album. However, these 10 bands rocked on: The order is based on the number of certified albums sold and notoriety of the band with and without [...]

Almost everybody loves rock n’ roll.  Being in a rock band is every teenage boy’s dream: the lights, women, the roaring crowd, the fame, the women, the women, the recognition.  And women.  What they don’t seem to realize is that you don’t necessarily need to play a “standard” instrument to get there.  In fact, many of the [...]

For some reason, movie studios aren’t content with the millions of dollars they make off of hit movies. Even after the avalanche of money that a hit movie makes, studio executives try to milk every single penny out of a franchise. There are ill-conceived sequels, over the top merchandising, and, worst of all, terrible cartoon [...]

More than any other type of music, hip hop relies on stage names to help sell the artist to the public.  Usually, these names are derived from childhood experiences, and are designed to sound utterly bad-ass.  For real, even if you had no idea who Ghostface Killa or the Notorious B.I.G. were, would you screw [...]

As time has progressed, we’ve seen music become much more sleeker and refined, designed for mass appeal from the get-go. Songs have become polished products like trinkets you can fit in your breast pocket and admire from the palm of your hand. It used to be that music had splinters and rough edges and a [...]