Mammoth WVH, the group led by Eddie Van Halen’s son, Wolfgang Van Halen, rises to the top Billboard‘s Top Rock Albums and Hard Rock Albums charts dated June 26 with his self-titled debut album. The set begins with 31,000 equivalent album units earned during the tracking week of June 11-17,Read More →
While the charts have been dominated by rap and pop in recent years, Olivia Rodrigo’s four-week spell at number 1 with Good 4 U on the Official Singles Chart seems to usher in a wave of rock-inspired hits. Official Singles Chart. Rodrigo’s pop-punk hit is now the oldest rock-influenced rockRead More →
Image source: Getty / Jerritt Clark Willow Smith grew up on the music scene. His father, Will Smith, got his start as “Fresh Prince” and his mother, Jada Pinkett Smith, was the lead singer of metal band Wicked Wisdom in the early 2000s. her parents, Willow always felt left outRead More →
Black Music Month kicks off this month and includes reissues of classics from some of the world’s biggest artists, including Charles Mingus, Curtis Mayfield, Milt Jackson & Ray Charles, Zapp & Roger, The Drifters, The Time, and unreleased music by Miles Davis and Roberta Flack. Influential black artists have openedRead More →
In January 1989, the New Musical Express brought together three renowned songwriters at the Montague Arms pub in Peckham, south-east London. The magazine billed it as a “pop pinnacle” between the “ungodly trinity” of Nick Cave, Mark E Smith of The Fall and Shane MacGowan of The Pogues, who calledRead More →
When Andy Serrao joined longtime Southern California label Fearless Records as president in 2018, he noticed a shift in the industry — and that there were resources the label hadn’t properly tapped into. . So he decided to reinvent Fearless as a youth culture brand, not just a pop-punk/hard rock/metalRead More →