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Today in Music History for Dec. 5: In 1828, a Harmonic Society was formed in Lunenburg, N.S., by 24 men who met every week to sing church music. The society was one of the earliest musical ...
It’s not surprising at all that a greatest hits album makes it to this list, considering how popular such compilation albums have been in the past. For rock band Guns N’ Roses, their 2004 Greatest ...
Rock opera is a very niche sub-genre that hasn’t necessarily graced the music industry in a successful manner regularly. However, when it has, it has made history. Two musicians who made a killing on ...
Jeremy has more than 2100 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...
These world-premiere performances, produced by Lyric in partnership with Corgan, celebrate the 30th anniversary of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, the era-defining album from Corgan’s band The ...
This summer, the curtain rises—and the volume cranks—on a whole new Don Giovanni. Beginning performances on June 16, before its opening night on June 30, 2025, through August 26, 2025, at New York ...
When it comes to Mozart’s opera "The Marriage of Figaro," Adam Plachetka has sung both of its leading male roles: Figaro and Count Almaviva. And when the Czech bass-baritone finishes his three-day run ...
Here are 11 rock bands whose third album is their best! One of the most common and encouraging sentiments known to man is “the third time's the charm,” and that certainly applies to the third albums ...
You’ve heard rock operas like Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out of Hell” and Green Day’s “American Idiot,” but what about a rock album that gets reimagined as an opera? Billy Corgan is ...
It’s time to come out of hibernation, concept album-heads. We haven’t heard from Car Seat Headrest in a while, but the indie rockers aren’t tiptoeing around their return. Today, the band announced The ...
Car Seat Headrest have announced a new album/rock opera, The Scholars, and shared its first single, the 11-minute multi-part track “Gethsemane,” via a short film. They have also announced some new ...
What have been the biggest rock albums of the 21st Century so far? Billboard has now released their list of the Top 200 Albums of the Decade and there's one rock album that's managed to crack the Top ...