Rock

Many of rock music’s biggest names weren’t even born in 1942, when the Manhattan Project, a top-secret government initiative approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was designed to develop nuclear research during World War II. At the helm of the project was J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist who became known as the “father of the atomic bomb” after several years of working
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It’s an interesting era in post-pop revivalism no matter what your aesthetical persuasions are, and of the recent dispatches to come to my attention, the Noshows/Aud collaboration “Slow Up” is one of the more compelling singles of its kind. Although it’s a rhythm-forward composition, “Slow Up” isn’t lacking in melodic ribbonry by any measurement; contrarily,
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There are more than two albums’ worth of unreleased Van Halen songs waiting to be heard on YouTube. Below, we chronologically break down 25 demos and live cuts that never found their way to one of the group’s 12 studio albums. We also include information about an additional 16 tracks that have never been bootlegged. And we conclude by rounding up
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It’s often assumed that a prerequisite of rock ’n’ roll stardom is being a college dropout. A  typical rock musician is viewed as someone who flunked out of school and entered the adult world with no real qualifications or plans. That’s not always the case, and, to be fair, there is some truth to that belief: Many artists
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For some artists, the thrill of a hit song never dies. But for others, that enjoyment fizzles out completely. Fans may continue to celebrate certain songs, but sometimes enough is enough for the people who make them. Occasionally that has do to with a song’s massive popularity weighing on them or the monotony of having to perform it
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