(TheBRHM.com) Genre labels tend to outlive the accuracy that earned them, and no American act has lived more comfortably inside an incomplete label, or profited from it more handsomely, than Van Halen. Ask a room full of purists and half of them will swear those four dudes out of Pasadena ...

(TheBRHM.com) Certain records demand to be reconsidered, and the four acts I want to lay out here have waited long enough for their due. Growing up, I was the one kid on the block whose speakers didn’t fit the profile. Folks expected one thing rolling out of my window and ...

(TheBRHM.com) Every time somebody in the group chat drops that “greatest rock composition ever” take, they reach for the same six minutes. Mama, just killed a man. Scaramouche. The headbang scene in Wayne’s World. I get it. I grew up with it too, and I’m not about to sit here ...