No offense, but some people are way too easily offended – especially when it comes to music. While it's true musicians (the relatively famous ones, at least) can make an indelible mark on ...

From the moment the Arctic Monkeys released 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' in 2006, they've been one one of the most buzzed-about bands on the planet. Last year's 'AM' finally ...

Because grunge arose from a relatively condensed geographic area: the city of Seattle, and the surrounding area in the Pacific Northwest, many of the musicians involved were actually longtime ...

On May 25, 1977, an unheralded science-fiction epic named Star Wars opened in less than three dozen theaters across the United States. From this modest beginning sprung the most popular franchise ...

Would you spend $15,000 for a record player that could play your records in a 100 percent analog fashion without ever wearing them down? That's what the Japanese company ELP promises. They sell ...

Formed as a pop-punk band in the late '80s, Green Day got their start as a part of the San Francisco Bay area's DIY punk scene, but they quickly outgrew it. Soon, they were touring nationally and ...

'Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me' "Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me / No hope but no harm / Just another false alarm." Oh, how Morrissey loves to mope and sink into despairing ...

Just where did we think we were headed back in 1999, right before our calendars flipped over to the new millennium? The future of indie music didn't just seem blurry; it seemed downright ...

If Jack White is on it, you can absolutely judge an album by its cover. His face (clearly visible in the artwork for all but two of the dozen records he's credited for) is like a notarized stamp ...

While this list does not include Hüsker Dü releases (fodder, perhaps, for another list), it does encompass studio albums released under his own name, as well as those from Sugar and two of his ...

Of all the bands to emerge from the fabled Seattle scene of the early '90s, Pearl Jam were, perhaps, not only the most traditional rock band of the batch, but also the most unwilling to be ...

From his earliest bands to the vaunted Revolution, from the many variations of the New Power Generation to the all-female 3rdeyegirl, Prince counted dozens upon dozens of musicians as his bandmates.