It's hard to believe that we were bopping our heads 20 years ago to songs like "I'll Be Missing You," "The Freshmen," and "Coco Jamboo," to name a few (shout out if you remember the last one well, ...

Truly, 1997 was the year that boy bands broke onto the mainstream. These are three pop songs from 1997 that prove boy bands' power.

So, what if you think “Everlong” is better than Nirvana and you want to re-rank SPIN’s 1997 list accordingly? Well, it’s a free country for now, so here’s how: Peruse the whole 1997 alt-rock list ...

At 1997, rock radio was as optimistic as the U.S. president, who’d just been inaugurated for his second term. From angsty grunge and trendy Brit Pop came songs that were sunny in sound if not in ...

If you were hired to prove a certain decade was especially wild, how would you go about proving it? Would you go and interview everyone from that time period that you could? Would you track down ...

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Teaming with Bob Rock, the producer behind Motley Crue’s Dr Feelgood and Metallica’s Black Album, Veruca Salt wound up with a sound so heavy it obliterated any idea the quartet were mere mimics of the ...