Band of Skulls: The Best Band You Might Have Missed Some bands become famous. Some become cult favourites. And then there are bands like Band of Skulls. The ones you stumble across at two in the morning, wonder where they've been all your life, and spend the next week asking yourself one question: Why weren't these guys bigger? The funny thing about Band of Skulls is that they never really fitted into one neat little box. Too bluesy for indie. Too alternative for classic rock. Too heavy for mainstream radio. Too melodic to be simply labelled garage rock. Instead, they carved out their own lane, blending dirty blues riffs, hard rock swagger and haunting melodies into something that felt unmistakably theirs. They weren't trying to reinvent rock music. They were simply writing great songs. Sometimes that's enough. Sometimes it isn't. Formed in Southampton in 2008, the trio of Russell Marsden, Emma Richardson and Matt Hayward had something that immediately set them...
The Twisted Fairytale: Rock's Weirdest Hits Not every rock song has to change the world. Some songs aren't trying to make a political statement. Others aren't built around heartbreak, rebellion, or stadium-sized choruses. Every now and then, a band throws caution to the wind, cranks the amps to eleven, and decides that making people laugh is reason enough to write a song. These are the goofballs of rock. The oddballs. The misfits. The bands that refused to take themselves too seriously. And somehow, in doing so, they created some of the most unforgettable songs and videos of their generation. Once Upon a Time... If you grew up in the early '90s, chances are you spent countless hours parked in front of MTV, waiting for the next video to appear. It was a magical era where you never quite knew what was coming next. Then along came Green Jellÿ. Released in 1993, "Three Little Pigs" was unlike anything else on television. It took the familiar nursery rhyme every ...