One band absolutely dominated the hardcore conversation this year, and they did it by working way, way harder than anyone else. Affable Boston bruisers Haywire spent 2025 playing sweaty, cathartic, ...

We love those classic Christmas recordings. And we cherish the chance to hear Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, the Beach Boys, Darlene Love and other greats sing these standards each ...

Metallica celebrated a major career milestone in May, when their 1991 album Metallica was certified Double Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It was just the 14th album ...

Released at the height of the 1980s, Def Leppard’s Hysteria helped redefine rock albums through scale, sound, and lasting ...

Notes: The RIAA “double counts” double-disc albums, so this album actually sold about 11.5 million units. (Still pretty good.) Joel’s highest-certified single-disc album is The Stranger, which is ...

If 1994 was among the greatest years in rock and roll history, then 1995 should undoubtedly take the mantle for rap music. The decade welcomed the emergence and canonizations of alt-metal, ambient, ...

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"It’s quite amazing to us that this collection of songs still stands up today, some forty years later," Midge Ure tells ...

Australian staples Boy & Bear enter the top 20, and the festive season officially start to reshape listening habits ...

Recently, several Hendrix albums were certified again by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), and two of his ...

Earlier this year, George Harrison would have turned 82. But, as is often the case, the universe had a different plan in mind, and the former Beatle left us at age 58 way back in 2001. Despite his ...

We’re at the end of yet another year where commentators and fans speculated on the health of the rap world. In October, it was reported that, for the first time in 35 years, there were no rap songs in ...