Tyler Jenke

Tyler Jenke is the Adelaide-born, Melbourne-based Editor of Rolling Stone Australia. You can usually catch him reading up on Hottest 100 statistics, or in the front row of a Bad//Dreems concert.

Classic Rock

3 panel image of Radiohead, Machine Gun Fellatio, and Blur - 3 acts who sound nothing like their hit singles.

Classic Rock

11 bands who sound nothing like the hit singles that made them famous

You hear a song on the radio, you go and buy the album, you find out that the one song you enjoyed sounds nothing like the rest of the album.

Classic Rock

Frank Zappa, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Lorde - three artists at the centre of some of the most absurd song controversies of all time

Classic Rock

12 of the most absurd song controversies of all time

Have you ever listened to the radio, only to hear a word bleeped on a song, removed, or just plain censored? It happens a lot with controversial songs.

Metal

Metal

Shatter Brain and Requiem have come together for a brutal split album

Released via Melbourne's Disdain Records, Shatter Brain and Requiem have joined forced in a big way for a newly-released split.

Classic Rock

3 panel image featuring Wolfmother's Andrew Stockdale, Lou Reed, and Robin Thicke

Classic Rock

11 of the biggest album flops of all time

Sometimes, despite the efforts of the artists that create them, albums can totally crash and burn. Today, we look back on the biggest flops.

Classic Rock

Nirvana, AC/DC, and Metallica, three acts who were more succesfull following a lineup change

Classic Rock

11 bands that were more successful after a lineup change

Music is like life – nothing is set in stone and everything is subject to change. At the drop of a hat, your favourite band could have an all new lineup.

Classic Rock

Screenshots from The Simpsons, Requiem For A Dream, and Kill Bill, which have used some songs you definitely know, but couldn't possibly name

Classic Rock

10 songs you definitely know, but couldn’t possibly name

How many times have you wanted to tell your mates about songs you're thinking of, only to be stumped when it came to their titles?

Classic Rock

Classic Rock

What exactly makes Nickelback’s music so popular?

If one was to do a cursory web search for Nickelback, a vast majority of results would be almost unanimously critical of the group. Yet,...

Classic Rock

Hottest 100 The Flaming Lips, Peaches, and The Drones - 3 acts to never make the Hottest 100

Classic Rock

11 bands who surprisingly have never made the Hottest 100

Hottest 100 dominates discussion over the years, one could be mistaken for thinking that it’s the only music topic worth talking about.

Classic Rock

3 panel image featuring David Byrne, Thom Yorke, and Jimi Hendrix instruments

Classic Rock

10 bizarre instruments and the songs that made them famous

There's plenty of strange techniques that artists use to make a hit song. So let's look back at the times that they utilised some overlooked instruments.

Emo