• 9 Excellent Songs with Wordless Hooks: Kanye West, The Smiths, and more

    As someone who writes songs in his spare time, I completely understand how difficult it is sometimes to come up with lyrics to a song that's otherwise totally finished. It can be very tempting to just fill up the melody with a bunch of nonsense and call it a day. Here are 10 songs where the songwriters did just that and got away with it.

  • NME lists its 500 best songs of all time: Nirvana, The Smiths and The Strokes vie for top spot

    "Greatest songs of all time" lists are nothing new, but we admit we're curious to see what the folks at NME have come up with. After all, the magazine emphasizes rock from the U.K., and the U.K. has produced many of the most influential groups of all time. Interestingly, NME opted to shy away from the obvious big names, at least in its top five (only 500-401 and the top five have been released thus far).

  • Morrissey Autobiography Attracts Critics and Fans of The Smiths

    Morrissey has released an autobiography in the UK, fittingly named "Autobiography." The Associated Press reports it has already topped the UK Amazon charts since coming out yesterday, which has some literary critics in a huff. This marks the first rock memoir released with Penguin Classics, a publisher that some would say is strictly reserved for, well, classics. But in the world of rock music, Morrissey is an innovator turned classic at the mere age of 54. From frontman of The Smiths to solo artist, he has continued to make his mark on music and kept the media on its toes.
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