It’s Bowie’s birthday! It’s also Elvis’s, but he didn’t release a new album to celebrate. I guess he’s too busy celebrating with Bigfoot and Hitler. There’s not much to this little piece, […]
On Diffuser: Happy 69th Birthday, David Bowie
On Ultimate Classic Rock: 40 Years Ago – Patti Smith Makes a Definitive Opening Statement With ‘Horses’
Either you love Patti Smith’s Horses or you’re wrong. That’s just science.
On Diffuser: Cover Stories – The Subway-Inspired Artwork for Yeah Yeah Yeahs ‘Fever to Tell’
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Fever to Tell features a great, DIY, punk rock cover. Want to learn all about? Check it out on Diffuser.
On Diffuser: 35 Years Ago — Germs Frontman Darby Crash Dies of an Intentional Overdose
Poor Darby Crash. The guy wanted to be a legend, but he timed his suicide poorly.
On Diffuser: 15 Years Ago – Rage Against the Machine Make Their Own Mixtape With ‘Renegades’
Cover albums are usually throwaway novelties. Not so with Rage Against the Machine’s Renegades.
Cover Stories: Smashing Pumpkins, ‘Siamese Dream’
Look at those two little cuties on the cover of Smashing Pumpkin’s Siamese Dream. Don’t you just want to pinch their cheeks?
On Diffuser: Cover Stories — Muse, ‘Absolution’
Muse’s Absolution sports a great album cover. There’s a good reason for that.
On Diffuser: 25 Years Ago — Bad Religion Sharpen Their Edge ‘Against the Grain’
Hardcore punk can get monotonous. That’s why you need a little Bad Religion in your stacks.
On Diffuser: 30 Years Ago – The Jesus and Mary Chain Dish Out ‘Psychocandy’
Here’s one of the great post-punk albums of the mid-80s.
On Ultimate Classic Rock: 30 Years Ago – Frank Zappa Responds to the PMRC on ‘Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention’
The biggest political controversy of my teenaged life was the PMRC, and that made Zappa the biggest hero of my adolescence.
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