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Popular music's queer DNA is inarguable; however, due to the tenuous legal status of homosexuality and the rife bigotry…

For centuries, music has had a tendency to romanticize criminals, raising them to the status of heroic figures. A Friend…

Are you ready for some football? No, not that kind of football. We're talking the global game here, the one with an…

With information on how to decipher the meaning of dreams, including a glossary of common themes and elements, this…

How did a minor warlord who spent his life fighting Turkish invaders achieve such notoriety? Dracula FAQ digs up facts…

Although the Who famously proclaimed "I hope I die before I get old," they've now been around for more than 5 decades.…

If you think modern culture is mundane and banal, imagine a post world war II society where conformity and nationalism…

Author Gary J. Jucha covers everything there is to need to know about the Clash ranging from tours, the band's inception…

Although Bruce Springsteen is a living legend who has sold 120 million albums, there was a time he was a simple…

In the 1990s in Seattle, a whole genre of music was in the process of being born. From Nirvana, to Pearl Jam, Mudhoney,…

Jerry Nolan's story is one that is not often told in the annals of punk music. Despite playing in two of the most…

From historical archives and celebrity guests come 200 of the craziest and funniest lists, from Most Offensive Songs to…

It's 1982 and the Ramones are in a gutter-bound spiral. Following a run of inconsistent albums and deep in the throes of…

Not since Elvis have fans been so obsessed with a singer, one of the best lyricists and charismatic front men in music…

No other contemporary songwriter has created a body of work of such consistent quality, and such singular emotional and…