In the world of rock music, there is a subsection of artists known as jam bands. These groups take songs they’ve written and released on studio albums and play them live, often extending the tunes to ...

Today, we are as far from 1995 as 1995 was from 1965. Let that sink in. What that means, among many other things, is music from the mid-’90s is vintage. So, when a teenager today is looking to build ...

Without question, Metallica are the most formidable, popularized and influential band in the heavy metal genre. No other band in heavy music wields the same number of masterfully crafted albums or the ...

Paste’s 22nd Best Albums of the Year list, first compiled by the music team in a Google doc nearly 60 pages long, has arrived. 2024 was one for the books, and one of the best years of music of my life ...

The Beatles accomplished more in a fraction of their seven years together than most longer-surviving bands manage during their entire careers. Maybe it was just a product of the time and environment.

Many of rock 'n' roll's most significant moments have come in the form of album releases, the ranking of which has been hotly contested since the album format was first adopted in the music industry.

Where Pink Floyd started and where they ended up are entirely different places. As one of the U.K.'s premier psychedelic bands, they pioneered a style and sound that influenced countless artists over ...

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No rock bands were formed between 2012 and 2017 that made ranking website Ranker.com’s user-generated The Best Rock Bands of All Time list. In 2017, American heavy metal band Bad Wolves was formed in ...

Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin (photo: Laurance Ratner / WireImage). There’s no shortage of live albums in the last few decades, but they never mattered quite as much as they did in the ...