Best Hard Rock Performance Archives

Favorite Albums | Honorable Mention: Alice in Chains – Dirt (1992)

Posted by Eric Mack | Aug 17, 2014 | Favorite Albums | 0

During the grunge explosion of the early ’90s, Alice in Chains never quite became the “it” band...

Posted by Eric Mack | Aug 17, 2012 | Favorite Albums | 0

Highly compressed and crushingly loud, Songs for the Deaf works as both an arty hard rock...

Posted by Eric Mack | Feb 25, 2012 | Favorite Albums | 0

The ’90s were an amazing time for music, as an enormous amount of great material emerged in...

Posted by Eric Mack | Feb 24, 2012 | Favorite Albums | 0

For a long time, Ten was the only Pearl Jam album I cared about. I bought Vitalogy a couple years...

Posted by Eric Mack | Feb 16, 2012 | Favorite Albums | 0

Ah, Dookie. One of my oldest loves. I can remember buying both Dookie (1994) and Warning (2000) at...

Posted by Eric Mack | Feb 13, 2012 | Favorite Albums | 0

It took me a while to really get into Vs., but once I did, boy, did it sink its claws in me and...

Posted by Eric Mack | Feb 3, 2012 | Favorite Albums | 0

Although no one knew it at the time, Superunknown was released a month before Kurt Cobain took his...

Posted by Eric Mack | Jan 13, 2012 | Favorite Albums | 0

This album absolutely dominated my sophomore year of college. Before that, I was just a casual fan...

Posted by Eric Mack | Jan 12, 2012 | Favorite Albums | 0

This will come as a surprise to those who don’t know me personally, but Incubus is my favorite...

Posted by Eric Mack | Dec 28, 2011 | Favorite Albums | 0

Seattle, it turns out, was — and, it should be noted, still is — a perfect breeding ground for...