Like all art, music leaves a cultural imprint representing the events, feelings, successes and failures of the time that birthed it. While various styles of music capture the experience of the groups that listen to it, Top 40 pop speaks for the masses. With 2020 around the corner, let’s…

Since breaking into the mainstream with radio hits “Hate Me” and “Into the Ocean” in 2006, prolonged success has evaded Blue October. Following its rise to fame, the band fell into mediocrity during frontman Justin Furstenfeld’s struggles with addiction. Now six years sober, he and the band have switched…