Each Sunday, The Hard Times travels back and reviews a notable album from the past. This week we’re taking a look at Nirvana’s final studio…
Minutemen is one of the most influential hardcore punk bands of the 1980s, especially their biggest album “Double Nickels on the Dime.” It left an…
CHICAGO — Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan made some coffee before launching into yet another day of writing 5-star reviews of his own works on…
There’s something about hiding my receding hairline that reminds me of the classic Smashing Pumpkins album “Siamese Dream.” That wall of guitars! Those quiet/loud dynamics!…
Hey there kiddo, it’s been a while huh? “Achtung Baby” was U2’s seminal 1991 masterpiece, a rejection of their previous efforts, and a shocking explosion…
It’s hard to believe that Bright Eyes’ “Fevers and Mirrors” was released almost 20 years ago. It’s even harder to believe that upon revisiting this…
Sum-41 will forever be known as the band that made the bold stance of being not as good as Green Day, but worse than Good…
The term “concept album” can be confusing. Sometimes it implies that there is a narrative story told through a collection of songs, similar to a…
At The Hard Times we think it’s important to look back on iconic albums that made influenced us and have stood the test of time.…
By 1969, the Chipmunks had hit a creative and commercial brick wall, with the public seemingly sick of rodent-based novelty songs. The band and manager…
Oh my god! Oh my God! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck me! Fuck me! Ok damage control… damage control… Jesus fucking Christ HE CAME OUT OF…
There is no more iconic post-punk album than proto-punk band Television’s 1977 art-punk epic, Marquee Moon. That’s just a fact I was told by my…
In 1996 a newly formed band recorded a debut album at Stow College in Glasgow. Recorded and mixed within five days and released in a…
It’s important to revisit the albums that we imagine shaped us. Sonic Youth released Goo over 28 years ago and While it would eventually be…