Maria Sherman
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On the band's first song since 2014, My Chemical Romance exorcises a demon.
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Rarely does a life-altering album reveal itself, right away, to alter your life. But for Maria Sherman, Tiger Trap's 1993 album was a swift sonic gateway to reconsidering the power of soft sounds. -
We deserved a good show, and we got one of the best in years. But it wouldn't be the Grammys without a few familiar mistakes. -
Ten years ago today, July 23, One Direction created the universe. Read an excerpt from Maria Sherman's new book on boy bands, Larger Than Life, about 1D's formation and meteoric rise. -
NSYNC's 2000 smash was the peak of the TRL era, but it was also an outlier — a subtly forward-thinking pop record that got everything right about where the mainstream was headed. -
The gothy teens of Gothenburg, Sweden's Agent Blå mix indie-pop and post-punk to make what they call "death pop." The first single from the band's debut album is sinister and sweet. -
The Philadelphia band gets at the heart of youthful romance with peculiar — and, frankly, gross — scientific specificity. -
New member Melina Ausikaitis leads this weird pop song as Joan Of Arc's members bike and skateboard during a fireworks display.
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The first single from Nightmare Logic possesses a certain monolithic quality Lemmy would admire: a massive rawness and heavy hopelessness that thrashes with punk immediacy and metal intricacy. -
The Philly post-punk band's intimate story of war gets under the skin, cold and heavy.
