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Green Day’s second full album was the perfect dry run for the band’s later assault on the mainstream, containing both more variety and more…
Green Day couldn’t have had a blockbuster without Nirvana, but Dookie wound up being nearly as revolutionary as Nevermind, sending a wave…
Dookie gave Green Day success, but it was never really clear whether they wanted it in the first place. However, given the incessantly catchy songwriting
Following the cool reception to Insomniac, Green Day retreated from the spotlight for a year to rest and spend time with their families. During that extended…
By 2000, Green Day had long been spurned as unhip by the fourth-generation punks they popularized, and they didn’t seem likely to replicate…
It’s a bit tempting to peg Green Day’s sprawling, ambitious, brilliant seventh album, American Idiot, as their version of a Who album…
Bullet in a Bible is a CD/DVD package (also available as a UMD, for those who want to carry it around on a Sony PSP) documenting Green Day’s show at the…
American Idiot was a rarity of the 21st century, a bona fide four-quadrant hit, and it turned Green Day into something it had never been before…
Florida metalcore outfit Underoath’s seventh studio album arrives on the heels of the departure of its last remaining original…
The utterly entangled story of Suicidal Tendencies and the various bands, side projects, and more that have been part of their overall orbit continues…
A first listen to Danish “metal rockers” Volbeat’s Beyond Hell/Above Heaven, reveals how completely they’ve consolidated all the elements…
Just when you think every possible rock & roll subgenre has already been mixed, matched, and spliced with every other available subgenre beyond any…
The fifth studio album by Chicago art metal band Yakuza is their debut for the Canadian label Profound Lore, home to many other acts…
The third full-length by Australian metalcore band Parkway Drive finds them changing producers but not their fundamental approach. Where their first…
On the third album from Cincinnati’s Beneath the Sky, the band delivers a bloody serving of metalcore, melding crawling brutality…
Let it never be said that Sick of It All lack dedication. After almost 25 years of recording and touring, the New York hardcore legends are still going…
