You can have the best of both worlds though —there are rock star book worms among us, and they've written quite a few songs based on novels, poems and more. Below, we're taking a look at 60 ...

However, this heartland rock hit isn’t really a celebration of the US of A and being a red-blooded American. This song is actually a criticism of post-Vietnam War America, where veterans faced ...

Especially, it seems, if that home is the USA, which has provided the subject to more classic rock songs than you can shake a stick at. Whether they’re dealing a cynical swipe at the government or ...

Years later, while brainstorming a title for the follow-up album to his first solo record, Frank Black, Thompson remembered the achievement. It was 1994, a year after he blew up the Pixies, and the ...

There are also some songs that are funny without intending to be, perhaps due to excessive earnestness or due to it being so over the top that it becomes something of a laughing stock. But sometimes a ...

We doubt the writers of these songs ever imagined they would show up movies and TV shows like these. The best uses of music ...

Few American rock’n’roll bands have married the earthy and the theatrical with as much success as Styx. Their best songs are an exhilarating mix of hard rock muscle, progressive rock ambition ...

The data displayed for this chart goes back to 1994, however we hope to be able to offer deeper historic information at a future point ...

“Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine” has become a punk rock mantra in the years since the song’s release. Despite the fact that “Gloria” is a mashup of a Van Morrison song and ...

According to WhoSampled, ‘Long Red’ by Mountain is the most sampled classic rock song of all time, boasting almost 900 uses by other artists. Released in the summer of 1969, ‘Long Red’ first appeared ...

Here is your 2024 hard rock + metal album release calendar. With so many new metal and hard rock albums being released each week, it can be difficult to keep up. We’re making things a lot easier ...

Produced throughout Latin America, but especially in Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela (previously), Colombia, and Brazil, the DNA ...