We often think of decades in music history as isolated chapters. However, music, as with everything, evolves. Underground artists were reacting against the slick production and excess of popular music ...

'80s Alternative Rock Legends Share Exciting News and Fans Are Thrilled originally appeared on Parade. From humble beginnings as a Boston punk band in the mid-1980s to becoming college radio mainstays ...

Here are 10 songs that defined the "college rock" era. Before alternative rock was everywhere in the '90s, you had to hunt to find the up-and-coming bands and more often than not, the journey led you ...

“Killing An Arab” introduced me to The Cure. “Boys Don’t Cry” and “A Forest” made me a fan. But “In Between Days” made the band essential to me. Here, Robert Smith describes the desperation of feeling ...