Cracked Archive - Music
We don't expect our musicians to moonlight as physicists -- hell, we're lucky if they finish high school. So sometimes they get their science wrong.
- By Winston Rowntree, Amanda Mannen
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- June 09, 2013
There are those musicians who, for whatever reason -- an off-putting comment, a generally grumpy demeanor, the fact that they're opening that night for Sinbad -- are a little less agreeable.
- By Teddy Wayne
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- May 31, 2013
It turns out music is an explosion of guitars, drums, and telling people about stuff before it happens.
- By Jacob Trowbridge
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- May 26, 2013
It's never widely publicized who did the actual writing, and sometimes it's for good reason.
- By Mike Floorwalker
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- May 24, 2013
To go along with all of the other difficulties that come with putting together something great, these bands and musicians had to fight through an extra step of insanity before some of their best work could see the light of day.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- May 18, 2013
The secret ingredient was pure insanity.
- By Aaron Short, Sam Jackson
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- May 09, 2013
These were important artists with huge followings who had no need to change course or rock the boat.
- By Gladstone
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- April 27, 2013
More often than not, when the creative force behind a band branches out on their own, the end result just leaves you longing for the days when they had a few extra people around to share the work.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- April 20, 2013
What if you want to hold a confusing party? What if you, the malevolent puppet master that you are, expressly invited those poor bastards who'll return your calls for mind games and bacon-wrapped dates? Simple -- just turn on any of these five songs.
- By Cyriaque Lamar
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- March 09, 2013
Here are some hilarious examples where the very people in charge of policing the Internet for potential copyright violations fall astray of the laws themselves.
- By Ross Jones-Morris
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- March 06, 2013
It turns out the package that some of history's most beloved artists were wrapped in when they first entered our collective consciousness is often the product of several aborted attempts to get their shtick down perfect.
- By Mike Floorwalker
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- March 05, 2013
A thousand years from now, anthropologists will chalk up the 1980s as a mythical era akin to King Arthur's Camelot or when people drove blue-green Saturns.
- By Kristi Harrison
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- March 02, 2013
Here are a few things record labels don't want you to know that they still do in an effort to separate you -- and the artists -- from your hard-earned cash.
- By Rani Baker, Dwayne Hoover
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- February 19, 2013
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