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Taking their name from the band’s trademark skeleton hoodies, the Skeleton Clique formed around the time Twenty One Pilots self-released their final indie record, “Regional at Best,” in 2011. During ...

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Many muses have inspired the greatest songs by bands, but these artists made a handful of their songs purely out of spite.

From the technical mastery of Rush to the final genius of The Beatles, we rank the 15 essential albums that define classic rock.

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Minutes later, O’Brien is still attempting to describe Fleming, and he eventually lands on the image of “the goop that’s inside a lava lamp.” Fleming’s work is a hyperspecific, manic, digressive ...

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Shaun Ryder spoke to Contact Music about the upcoming Happy Mondays tour marking the 35th anniversary of their album Pills n Thrills and Bellyaches, why hes getting political on the bands first new ...

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Frontman Gene Gallagher and guitarist Ben Taylor told Radio X's Dan O'Connell they were "thrown in at the deep end" for the 30th anniversary shows.

Ira Dot is the project of Canadian musicians Ryan Akler-Bishop and Eddy Wang. As artists, the duo have stretched their work across a wide canvas: Wang is a filmmaker, multidisciplinary artist, and PhD ...