The Rock Music Forum

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The music industry is weird. It has always been weird, but the streaming era seems weirder somehow. All it takes is a snippet of your song to go viral on TikTok and you’re made. That’s what happened to Crawlers.

One of the quirks of streaming is you can see exactly how popular a song is. On Spotify, ‘Come Over (Again)’ has almost 75 million streams. That’s al...

His squeaky-clean vocal trio, the Lettermen, survived the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix to pepper the pop charts with lush, retro-tinged songs. He was 87.

Eighteen months ago, Korn reminded us at Download Festival that they were a force to be reckoned with. Tonight’s the final night of the UK leg of their European tour – Korn’s first visit back since 2025, and their first arena tour over here in a decade – and with rumours flying that they’re wrapping up a new album, the bar for this show is high enough to practically be floating ...

Think about it like this. You attend Anberlin’s 2014 farewell show. After seven albums they are calling it a day. Before the band take to the stage, a young man of perhaps twenty taps you on the shoulder. ‘I’m too old for this’ he tells you despite clearly enjoying himself, perhaps believing that he should have grown out of pop-rock. The sad thing is, Anberlin are a mature-sound...