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Few bands captured the jittery, wired-up feeling of British city life in the mid-2000s quite like Bloc Party did. Formed in London in 1999 by Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack and rounded out by...
Anthrax are the only band in the Big Four who thought mosh pits needed jokes, Judge Dredd references and a rap collaboration — and then went on to outlast almost everybody. Formed in Queens,...
Two twins from Auchtermuchty, one pair of NHS specs each, and a song that refuses to die — that’s the short version. The longer version is that Craig and Charlie Reid have spent nearly...
Jhené Aiko spent a decade teaching mainstream R&B that a whisper can hit harder than a belt. The Los Angeles singer — born Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo, raised in Ladera Heights, signed to Epic...
Say her name to anyone who was on the internet in March 2011 and you’ll get an instant reaction — usually a laugh, sometimes a wince, occasionally a genuine “wait, she’s still making music?”...
Ask anyone who lived through 1997 to name one song that defined that year, and there’s a decent chance “Torn” comes up before they’ve even finished thinking about it. That’s the shadow Natalie Imbruglia...
Before “Back That Azz Up” became a permanent fixture at every wedding reception and cookout in America, Juvenile was just a teenager out of New Orleans’ Magnolia Projects trying to turn bounce music into...
Four Swedes in matching jumpsuits changed the sound of pop music forever, and nobody has quite matched them since. ABBA formed in Stockholm in 1972 and turned Sweden into a genuine pop superpower almost...
There aren’t many bands from a Leicester council estate who end up headlining Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage, but Kasabian did exactly that in 2014, and they did it on their own terms. Formed in 1997...
Few sibling acts have built a catalog as quietly devastating as Angus & Julia Stone. Formed in Newport, a beachside suburb of Sydney, in the mid-2000s, the brother-sister duo turned hushed acoustic folk into...
