Nicholas Pell

There are two types of punk rock fans in the world: those who love the Gimmes and those who can’t stand them. Count me among the former....

From T. Rex to Roxy Music to The Pixies, David Bowie was never shy about stealing ideas from the real vanguard artists and making them his own....

History has been unkind to Motley Crue's one and only album featuring lead singer John Corabi, but it's a hard-rock masterpiece....

I get that it’s fashionable to shit all over '70s rock bands who persisted in the '80s. But the more I look at what Aerosmith did from Permanent Vacation to Get a Grip, the more I’m impressed....

There's a new Metallica album out and as usual, the critics are unimpressed. But they're wrong. It's their best album in 20 years....

This is one of those articles I’ve been dreading writing. For the most part, when people read Unpopular Opinions (and probably anything for that matter), they read what they want to. And because most people on the internet love nothing more than to be irritated by other people’s opinions on......

Unsurprisingly, when Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature last week, many critics took to their keyboards to cry about how Dylan didn’t deserve it. “Just another white male,” whined The Guardian, which has long been a parody of a real newspaper. Everyone I spoke to seemed to scratch......

Unsurprisingly, effete urban liberals were heavily triggered by my praise of Ted Nugent a few weeks back. I’m guessing these are the types of people who still find references to “Drumpf” the pinnacle of comedy and long for the days when Jon Stewart made wacky faces on The Daily Show......

I have some bad news for you, Los Angeles: You think you’re the best city for rock & roll, but you’re not. It’s not that you’re a particularly bad city for it. On the contrary, I’d probably place you a strong second. You’re the home of The Doors, Black Flag......

It might surprise you to hear this, but I take far greater pleasure in talking up bands than shitting all over your personal favorite. It’s far more fun to interact with people who either already share a love of, for example, Gordon Lightfoot or who discover that yes, Virginia, Hall and......