It’s clear from album opener “Armatage Shanks” alone that Green Day’s songwriting took a turn for the slightly darker on Insomniac — Billie Joe’s lyrics have always had a dark side, but here his ...

It’s a safe wager that no scatologically titled album ever cast a longer shadow than Green Day’s Dookie. The Bay Area trio’s 1994 major-label debut stumbled upon meteoric success in the wake of Kurt ...

Few people were aware of the 1994 single “Insomniac” by the rock duo Billy Pilgrim, and it quickly sank into obscurity. But a cappella groups can’t stop singing it. We set out to find an explanation.

When the New York Times reporter Sopan Deb was a teenager, he joined his high school a cappella group. On most songs he just sang background vocals or beatboxed, but he did get one big solo: the lead ...