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Henry Diltz/Corbis via Getty Images The Red Hot Chili Peppers Classic That Anthony Kiedis Insisted Wasn’t the Right Fit for the Band
In 1991, the Red Hot Chili Peppers released a surprising song that showcased a softer side of the L.A. funk-rock misfits.
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Lindsay Brice/Getty Images If I Could Blend Timelines, I Would Create These 3 Dream Punk Collabs With Old and New Bands
Who would you choose if you were setting up punk collabs? Here are three hypothetical pairings we’d love to see on split albums.
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(Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage) Kurt Cobain Credited This Band for Getting Him Off His ‘Macho Punk Rock Trip’ As a Teen
Kurt Cobain reveals the band that helped radically adjust his perspective and embrace a more ‘feminine’ outlook.
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(Photo by Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) 6 Dream Hip-Hop Collabs That Show the Genre at Its Fullest Potential
Noisey selects six dream hip-hop collabs we wish we could have heard, spanning different decades and regions.
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Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images 4 Banned Songs That Climbed the Charts Instead
You would think a banned song would fade away into obscurity, but here are four that climbed the charts because they were prohibited.
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(Photo by Jason Mendez/Getty Images for Netflix) Hot 97 Finds Their ‘Ebro in the Morning’ Replacement With The Kid Mero
Hot 97 finally found its replacement for ‘Ebro in the Morning’ with prominent hip-hop media figure The Kid Mero.
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Credit: Flogging Molly ‘You’ll Have to Bury Me Twice’: Flogging Molly’s Dave King Opens Up About His Life-Threatening Health Scare and the Band’s Future
Flogging Molly frontman Dave King suffered a “traumatic brain injury,” but his recovery has him on a journey to performing again.
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Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images BottleRock 2026 Lineup Announced: Foo Fighters, LCD Soundsystem, Backstreet Boys (!), Lorde, and More to Headline
Plus Teddy Swims, Lil Wayne, Somber, and many more.
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Photo by Gilbert Flores/Penske Media via Getty Images Madison Beer Announces “the locket tour” for 2026
The tour comes in support of Beer’s upcoming album, locket.
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Karl Walter/Getty Images) 4 Times the Internet Forever Changed the Way I Looked at These Popular Songs
The internet is great at a lot of things: spreading the news, making us mad, and ruining perfectly good songs forever.
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(Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for AFI) Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA Makes the Case for AI in Film and Music: ‘An Amazing Thing for Us’
RZA makes a case for how AI has helped save him time and money while working on his recent films and albums.
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Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for The Recording Academy BTS Just Announced a Huge Comeback World Tour for 2026-2027
It’s the K-Pop icons’ first tour since announcing a hiatus in 2022.