*This Was My Life: Nick Menza’s Metal Memories With Megadeth and Beyond | Full Documentary* – What does it take to provide the rhythmic heartbeat for one of the greatest thrash metal bands of all time? In the deeply moving, highly authorized music documentary This Was My Life: Nick Menza’s […]
In 1996, Soundgarden opened Down on the Upside with “Pretty Noose,” a Grammy-nominated lead single about attractive-looking bad ideas. Behind the scenes, the band was quietly fracturing at the height of its powers. In this episode of Poetic Wax, we dig into the full history of the song: how Matt […]
The Letters to Cleo Story. This week, we explore one of the cruelest timing stories in 90s rock — a band that got signed off one show, had their song in the biggest teen movie of the decade, appeared on screen with Heath Ledger, and still couldn’t sell a record […]
*Led Zeppelin: Origin of the Species | Before the Fame: Rare Footage of Led Zeppelin in the 1960s* – How did four musicians navigating the crowded London session scene and amateur clubs of the 1960s unite to become the most powerful band in rock history? In the compelling 70-minute retrospective […]
👉 Sponsored by Meze Audio 105 Silva Headphones: https://mezeaudio.com/products/105-silva?_ef_transaction_id=&oid=49&affid=130 The King of Limbs is without question Radiohead’s most divisive album. In early 2011, Radiohead dropped The King Of Limbs with almost no warning; a short, looping, rhythm-driven album that left many longtime fans confused and disappointed. They either love it […]
👉 Check out Alliance Authentic here: https://marketplace.allianceauthentic.com/ “Blue Orchid” arrived at the exact moment The White Stripes needed it most. After Elephant brought massive success and painful betrayals in Detroit, Jack White turned his own leaking house into a makeshift studio for Get Behind Me Satan. Sessions cursed with broken […]
The Prodigy Story. This week, we delve into the explosive, terrifying rise and devastating end of The Prodigy — the Essex rave act that weaponized pure noise, pissed off the entire British establishment, and burned down every rule in the music industry. What happened to The Prodigy begins in 1990, […]
*Live At Heaven Nightclub, London 1983 | Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams, the Video Album* – Step into a time machine and experience the exact moment synth-pop history was rewritten. Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams, the Video Album captures Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart right as they were breaking onto the global stage. Filmed […]
Modern shoegaze band Nothing’s “A Short History of Decay” traces Domenic Palermo’s unflinching look at aging, trauma, and physical decline. Six years after “The Great Dismal,” the band returns with new music and it’s their clearest and most vulnerable record yet. It’s built around Essential Tremors left raw in the […]
The Strokes were supposed to save rock and roll. Five trust fund kids from Manhattan’s most elite boarding schools convinced the entire music press they were gritty, street-level garage rock heroes — and for about fifteen minutes, everyone bought it. Julian Casablancas, son of modeling billionaire John Casablancas, dictated every […]
