Tag: Lists

Every Garbage Album, Ranked

Wisconsinite drummer Butch Vig, Nebraskan guitarist Duke Erikson, and Minnesotan guitarist Steve Marker met in the late ’70s in Madison, Wisconsin. Although Erikson and Vig’s bands Spooner and Fire Town each released a couple of well-received albums, it was really Smart Studios, which Vig and Marker founded in Madison in 1983, that made the Midwestern […]

August 19, 2025
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Every Public Enemy Album, Ranked

A Long Island hip-hop crew called Spectrum City evolved into Public Enemy in the mid-’80s, signed to Def Jam, and became one the most politically outspoken and musically innovative groups the genre had, and has, ever seen. Chuck D and Flavor Flav have been the group’s only two consistent members over the years: the high-minded […]

August 4, 2025
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Blink-182’s 10 Most Underrated Songs

At long last, Tom DeLonge and Blink-182 are back together again. After months of rumblings, the guitarist reunited with Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker, and fans of the pop-punk pioneers couldn’t be happier. The band’s co-founding guitarist has been out of the lineup since 2015, replaced during that stretch by Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba. But […]

October 12, 2022
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The 20 Best Riot Grrrl Songs

“Even though I did punch her, I thought she was a genius,” Courtney Love said of Kathleen Hanna in 2002, while attempting to explain riot grrrl to The Strokes live on MTV. Twenty years later, and about 30 since the movement’s inception, trying to define it still feels fraught. Riot grrrl was always a nebulous concept, […]

September 1, 2022
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