When one thinks of the ‘90s, mainstream acts like Nirvana, Garth Brooks, Alanis Morissette, and Bill Clinton’s jazz quartet often come to mind for pedestrians…
Formed in 1992 during grunge’s height between Soundgarden’s “Nevermind” and Pearl Jam’s “In Utero,” Chicago, Illinois’ darlings known as Veruca Salt, named after an annoying…
Washington, D.C.’s Dischord Records, which is often spelled incorrectly, was formed by two-fourths of seminal hardcore band Minor Threat, Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, in…
Benjamin Scott Folds, better known to the world as Benjamin Scott Folds, has had quite a prolific musical career since the late-’80s, and still rocks…
Formed in the wake of grunge music, Agoura Hills, California’s Hoobastank obviously has a cringe band name, but you keep on saying it, likely in…
One of the more underrated Revelation Records acts to speak of is Bridgewater Township, New Jersey’s power trio Shades Apart. They formed in the late…
Whether you discovered sunny Huntington Beach, California by way of icey New Haven, Connecticut’s Revelation Records from reverential New York Hardcore band Gorilla Biscuits or…
The legendary and infinite genre blending Michael “Brian/Bruce Lee” Park’s reverential DIY efforts often go unnoticed by both punks and rocks, and we hope that…
Chances are that you have spelled this incredible punk rock reimagined version band’s name wrong once, twice, or thrice, but Me First and the Gimme…
Seattle, Washington’s Alice in Chains is such an influential/groundbreaking rock that your favorite act and ours, Godsmack, named themselves after one of their songs, and…
Los Angeles-based punk/alternative label SideOneDummy was founded in 1995, the year that Rancid, Alanis Morissette, The Presidents of the United States of America, Foo Fighters,…
If “Pony,” Far’s cover of Ginuwine’s third-wave ska-punk masterpiece, is the only song that you know of from the Sacramento, California four-piece, you need to…
Late 90s/early aughts hard rock bands that couldn’t get a good word written about ‘em via the elitist press at the time like Creed, Nickelback,…
Calabasas, California’s Incubus formed the year that “Nevermind” and “Rover Dangerfield” both conquered the globe with complicated quantum physics, lovely sunrises, vicious violent crows, and…
Sometimes a telling benchmark for a band’s mainstream success is whether or not moms rock out to said act in their SUVs that drain gas…