Hating your own songs is like hating your own children — surprisingly common. In this gallery, we’ll offer you the stories behind rock and metal’s all-time biggest tracks and the songwriters who regretted some of their most popular cuts. “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “Stairway to Heaven” and “Sweet Child O’ Mine” are all household song
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Late last night, DJ Sam Black, formerly engaged to Ekali, posted a horrific account of her experiences with the producer in which she claims he put her “through hell by gaslighting, lying, cheating, and abusing me, abusing drugs,” and more. According to the statement, Black decided to finally post about his actions after he slept
The year was 2000, nu metal was starting to dominate radio and Limp Bizkit were “rollin’, rollin’, rollin'” with plenty of momentum as they made the jump from supporting their Significant Other album to working on what fans would come to know as Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water. “We had this huge
The highly anticipated, genre-bending first album from Whethan is finally here, bringing his full musical vision to life with FANTASY. Pop-rock and alternative trap lace the entire release, but every track brings a different, distinct vibe. Whethan has made it known from the jump he will never put himself into the box — we can
AC/DC are getting ready for the release of Power Up, their seventeenth studio album, and have just launched a logo name generator that will style your initials in vein of the Australian rock powerhouse’s classic logo. The official Power Up name generator can be used here, where the band first commands you to click on the “Pwr Up”
Earlier this week on Wednesday, October 14, multi-platinum, rising global artist SAINt JHN performed a fiery rendition of his massive hit single “Roses” at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards. Gracing a stage built ‘in the round’, a larger-than-life 3D custom visual of the skeleton on a motorcycle frequented in SAINt’s artwork cruising in flames designed
Struggling to come up with an idea for a Halloween costume? We’ve got you covered. Some of rock and metal’s most legendary artists are very distinguishable, and they make for great Halloween costumes. For starters, you’re going to need a lot of black clothing, if you don’t already own it. Throw some leather and some
Zedd just took to socials to announce some exciting news — he’s finally ready to share a new song. Problem is, he shares barely over a second of it, making for the ultimate troll. And it’s not the first time he’s done this, either. “BRAND NEW SONG!!!!” he teases in the post below. “EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW!!!!!”
Fall of 2020 is loaded with livestream performances and you can add Fozzy to your list of upcoming shows to catch as they’ve just announced a livestream gig set for Nov. 14. Airing ahead of the set is a 30-minute documentary, which will be making its world premiere. The event, dubbed “Capturing Judas,” is a
Major Lazer’s next (and maybe final) album, Music Is The Weapon, is due out next Friday, October 23. The group just revealed the album’s full tracklist, including most of their 2019 and 2020 singles. Tracks like “Can’t Take It From Me” with Skip Marley, “Trigger” with Khalid, “Que Calor” with J Balvin and El Alfa, and
Amid a difficult 2020, England’s metalcore vets While She Sleeps are staring down 2021 with a new album, song and self-sustaining fan society, all under the title of Sleeps Society. In a newly released video that is part press conference and part song, While She Sleeps lay out their mission statement from here on out. With
It’s been a hot minute since we’ve done a Crankdat premiere on Your EDM, so we’re supremely excited to get back into the game with his newest single, “Dark Room,” out today on Monstercat. Typically known for his unabashedly heavy tunes, his last single, “Tell Me,” was a beautiful melodic bass tune. He keeps that
August, 21, 1990 — Alice in Chains release their debut album, Facelift. Now, 30 years later, that recording remains as vital as ever and the band has just unveiled a massive box set celebrating the record’s three-decade milestone. Released before the true arrival of grunge and amid hair metal excess and a sea of power ballads, Facelift
Live Nation has launched the Black Tour Directory — a new online resource that connects tour organizers with black workers and black-owned businesses. From tour managers to sound engineers, production equipment to security, and lighting to merchandising, the site is a go-to for planning gigs and entire tours. It’s a move to help promote diversity
Congrats to Panic! At The Disco, the winner of the Top Rock Artist and Song honors at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards. The band won in the Top Rock Artist that included Imagine Dragons, Tame Impala, Tool and Twenty One Pilots. They also won in the Top Rock Song category, which was heavy on alt-rock nominees, with
A new documentary film Sisters with Transistors aims to uncover the little-known role of women in early electronic music — and furthermore, “the central role of women in the history of music and society at large.” The synopsis of the film powerfully reads: While electronic music is often perceived as a boys club, the truth is
Bring Me the Horizon have finally announced their highly anticipated new album Post Human: Survival Horror. The record will drop the day before Halloween and features collaborations with Evanescence‘s Amy Lee, Babymetal, Yungblud and Nova Twins. BMTH have already had three smash hits with “Ludens,” “Parasite Eve” and “Obey,” the latter two of which became
A versatile producer with praise across platforms, Super Duper has spent his career crossing genres to fantastic results. His music has resonated to the tune of millions of streams, support from Spotify’s essential playlists like Dance Rising, uploads from SuicideSheeep to Chill Nation, and a slew of #1 slots on the HypeM popular chart alike.