Soundgarden's Kim Thayil on the band's origins and intentions, his long friendship with Chris Cornell, and his thoughts on the Rock Hall of Fame.

With this year's Rock Hall induction finally coming up this weekend (Nov. 9), we think it's a good time to look back on rock's history - from the very beginning up until this century - and figure out which rock bands we think at Billboard still serve as the benchmarks for greatness.

You can take Drain out of the Bay Area, but you can’t take the Bay Area out Drain.

The Eagles were one of the most popular musical acts in the world in the 1970s, but they ground to a halt in the first year of the new decade of the 1980s with a disjointed, piecemeal album that stands as an appropriate testament to the band’s inner dysfunction.

During a Takes Us Out lunch with Billboard, 5 Seconds of Summer's Michael Clifford proudly proclaimed 'we are one of the best boy bands ever.'

When the Beatles broke up, Paul McCartney’s ability to create hits without the rest of the Fab Four was far from assured. His oral history of Wings shows how he pulled it off.

Sharon and Kelly Osbourne reacted after two Black Sabbath superfans got engaged by a bridge dedicated to the heavy metal band. The bridge, located in Birmingham, England — the city where Black Sabbath was formed in 1968 — is a popular landmark for fans.

After a decade as a band, their latest album, “Small Talk,” sounds like a new peak for the soulful folk-rockers. “Dandelions,” the lead single off “Small Talk,” is a charming re-committal to the city.

A band with three members who met as 12-year-old schoolboys in the West Midlands are to play their "dream" venue as they celebrate the success of their debut album. The Clause's Victim Of A Casual Thing hit eighth place in the official UK album charts - above stars such as Sabrina Carpenter and Elton John.