3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (376+ words) For anyone desperately yearning for their partner in a long-distance relationship, we picked three R&B classics to help with the pain. Anyone who has actually dealt with a long-distance relationship knows that you can find solace in music. Most…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (220+ words) On this day 19 years ago, Kanye West released the album that nearly made 50 Cent retire and changed hip-hop for good. But on this day 19 years ago, the hierarchy changed completely. Ye released Graduation, his attempt to make true stadium-level music…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (461+ words) Dan Milam is a writer, musician, and photographer living in Chicago, IL, with a background in public radio. He plays drums in Mad Drunken Americans and the Greg Jackson Combs Band. Coming from a small Midwestern town with passionate music…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (266+ words) Following the devastating 9/11 attacks in 2001, these rock songs from the 1990s were banned from the radio airwaves. Metallica’s 1991 hit “Enter Sandman” made the list, one of four Metallica songs included on the ban list. Others include “Seek And Destroy”, “Harvester Or…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (399+ words) VICE Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. Sometimes you hear a song and think, “This could be the next big thing.” Over time, you realize you never hear anything else from the artists. Suddenly, your favorite hit…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (362+ words) VICE Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. There are countless “cheesy” hits that came out of the 1980s. Music became more commercialized, with labels seeking quick hits rather than timeless classics. These 1980s one-hit wonders haven’t held up over…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (417+ words) VICE Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. Shoegaze is about feeling the song physically, rather than getting lost in the technicalities. Song structure isn’t as important as the wall of sound present, rising and falling throughout…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (391+ words) VICE Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. As time goes on, it can be easy to forget a song you once loved. Therefore, it can be fun to rediscover a lost hit you adored at a young…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (367+ words) In the 1970s, Louisa Livingstone appeared as the witch on Black Sabbath’s iconic debut album cover, and now she makes AI-assisted music. The heavy-metal-album-cover-witch-to-musician pipeline is narrow, but not empty. Case in point: Louisa Livingstone, the woman who appeared on the…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (385+ words) VICE Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. In the 2000s, many rock bands weren’t “politically correct”. Nowadays, it matters what you say, who your band members are, what they’ve said or done, and your image is important. 25 years…...