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Led Zeppelin released 'Led Zeppelin III' 56 years ago on October 5, 1970 | Listen to the album + discover where it ranks in our readers' poll via the link in the comments below

On this day in 1999, the Misfits released Famous Monsters. It was the band's second album of the post-Danzig era and the final album to feature Michale Graves, Dr. Chud, and Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein. Graves and Chud left the band in 2000, while Doyle departed in 2001.

The album's title is an allusion to Famous Monsters of Filmland, the magazine from which the Misfits borrowed the classic font used in its logo.

The song "Scream!" was released as a single, with its music video directed by legendary filmmaker George A. Romero. The band also made an appearance in Romero's 2000 film Bruiser.

The instrumental track "Kong at the Gates" served as the official entrance theme for WCW professional wrestler Vampiro.

Michale Graves – vocals
Jerry Only – bass
Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein – guitars
Dr. Chud – drums

Meet the Hair-Metal Superfan Who Just Became Quiet Riot's New Singer John Torra was just named Quiet Riot's lead singer. He's a 23-year-old Long Island native who has been obsessed with hair metal since childhood.

Olivia Dean ‘Art of Loving’ Song Faces Lawsuit Claiming It Was Copied From ‘Just the Two of Us’

A new lawsuit claims a song on Olivia Dean's hit album The Art of Loving was copied from Bill Withers’ iconic song "Just the Two of Us."

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On This Day in 1970, Rock Lost Janis Joplin at Just 27

burned through the late 1960s with a voice that could sound wounded, defiant and completely overwhelming within the same song. Her arrival with Big Brother and the Holding Company helped redefine the possibilities for women in rock, and her legendary appearance at Monterey Pop in 1967 announced one of the era's most extraordinary performers.

The 1968 album Cheap Thrills captured Joplin at full force on Piece of My Heart, Summertime and Ball and Chain. After leaving Big Brother, she continued with I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! before recording Pearl with the Full Tilt Boogie Band. Released after her death, Pearl included Cry Baby, Move Over, Get It While You Can, Mercedes Benz and the No. 1 hit Me and Bobby McGee.

On October 4, 1970, Janis Joplin died in Los Angeles from an accidental he**in overdose. She was just 27 years old, and her career at the top had lasted only a few extraordinary years. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Fifty-six years after her death, Janis remains one of the defining voices of her generation.

In any industry, you’re bound to get burnt out. Once you’re deep into your work, you become a little bit cynical about how the systems work. Then, you slowly start to lose your passion, and it becomes just grunt work mentally.

It’s a struggle but a worthwhile fight to keep the fire for what you love alive. Yasiin Bey knew firsthand what it was like and essentially vanished from the music industry at the peak of his powers.

In a 2025 interview with The Guardian, the rapper formerly known as Mos Def recalled his career in the late 90s and early 2000s. His debut album, Black on Both Sides, was thriving critically and commercially. He was performing in great films like Bamboozled, Brown Sugar, and The Italian Job.

Moreover, Yasiin Bey had all these wild ideas to experiment with Black rock and metal sounds like Bad Brains. “I was trying to take all Limp Bizkit’s money!” he told the publication. “It was my funky vendetta against what I felt was appropriation.”

Of course, the label shut down his big ambitions. He won with hip-hop and they wanted him to stay in his box accordingly. Consequently, The New Danger in 2004 was a compromise that didn’t work out anyway because he took too long to follow up on his debut. In 2006, True Magic came out with a limp and it didn’t seem like Bey’s heart was in it anymore.

By 2009, he left his label and released The Ecstatic, an outstanding album that satisfied so many of his creative ambitions. In 2012, he dropped ‘Mos Def’ and went by Yasiin Bey instead. By 2016, he left music and Hollywood altogether, still burnt by the system and its lack of support. Admittedly, he still feels that pain, even if he knows it wasn’t personal.

“You start out with idealism and passion, and then you encounter the kind of conduct and values George Orwell called ‘inanities’. And they do this s**t to everybody; it’s not even personal, it’s systemic,” Yasiin Bey explained.

He argued it’s even worse today by comparison, due to the inequity of streaming. “That s**t is gross,” Bey continued. “Paying people part of a penny for their music. Those motherf***ers are cold-blooded, man like Scrooge McDuck, lickin’ his lips as he jumps into a pool of gold coins. The music industry of now makes the one I started out in seem charitable. It’s completely exploitative.”

Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ Returns to No. 1 After ‘Encore’ Reissue Taylor Swift's 'The Life of a Showgirl' returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart after its 'Encore' expansion with four new tracks.

Robert Glasper's Robtober is back. The pianist's annual residency at New York's Blue Note returns for an eighth season, with two shows a night from October 1 to November 1, each stretch built around a different collaboration.

Terrace Martin joins him October 7–10 with special guest Phoelix, followed by a duo with Lalah Hathaway on October 11. Glasper revisits the acoustic format with his OG Acoustic Piano Trio on October 15–18. He then teams up with Questlove and Bilal on October 21, with Wyclef Jean for Q Theory on October 22–23, and with Kem for Alkemy on October 24–25. Derrick Hodge and Chris Dave close out the month.

On October 14, he also hosts the Blue Note's 45th-anniversary celebration, a one-set-only show with surprise guests.