Recording sessions on the new album were not going well. They were in uncharted territory. The band were bashing out nearly a song a day, being gifted a budget of 40,000 dollars to get the album done. That was four times what their last album cost. And then there was the producer.

Imagine it's 1996, and you've got tickets to see legendary grunge band Soundgarden. And you're really excited about this, so you even go to the show early to get a good spot. So you're there just in time to see the opener. It's a non assuming bald guy opening the show, playing music from his latest album. He's best known for electronic music, but he's trying to play some punk and rock music to revitalize his career. But it's not very good. So what do you do? Well the only thing that feels natural. You throw bottles at him.

Honestly, she didn't want to do the song. She had already done the theme song for the Beauty and the Beast, and honestly, she thought she might be pushing her luck doing another theme song. She The Beauty and the Beast had already won Grammys, Oscars, Golden Globes, what more could she really achieve?

Calvin Broadus Jr. was born in Long Beach in 1971. He was named after his stepfather, but the name never really stuck. Instead, friends and family started calling him by the name of his favourite cartoon character, who his mother though he resembled.

In 2002, Ethan Alapatt was the general manager of Stones Throw Records. During that Spring, they had promised to fly out a mysterious underground rapper to LA, in hopes of creating an album with a talented beat producer on their roster. They had also promised to pay him 1500 dollars, which they soon realised after paying for the flights, they didn't actually have.

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25. Though the month and date of Jesus' birth are unknown, the church in the early fourth century fixed the date as December 25. This corresponds to the date of the winter solstice on the Roman calendar.

In 1994, a goth glam trio called the Rocket Baby Dolls applied for and received a £150 grant to buy some musical equipment. They entered a local battle of the bands and in an attempt to make a statement, they smashed all £150 pounds worth of equipment onstage after their set.

If you're of a certain age, you might be able to remember a time before the coronavirus, where people would go out to places called nightclubs and dance in tight spaces in even tighter clothing. And if you're of a certain age, you might remember doing it at the turn of the last decade, when electronic dance music or EDM collided into pop music to energise a new generation of club goers.

Before he made it big with music, before he met Dr. Dre, before the Grammys and the Academy awards, Eminem cooked and washed dishes at a family restaurant in Michigan. He was paid 5.50 an hour and worked 60 hours a week to save up enough money to support his daughter. By the time he was laid off, five days before Christmas, he's saved 40 dollars for her. All the money he had in the world.

In 1990, Kurt Cobain and Krist Noveselic went to a hardcore gig, where they saw a band called Scream. The drummer of Scream was really impressive, playing his heart out in front of the crowd. And when Scream disbanded, the drummer contacted the pair and asked if he could join their band.

The artist we've chosen this week was born in 1984 into a musical family. Instruments were commonplace around the house, and when their father realised they were serious about performing, he became their agent and manager, pushing them to follow their dreams.

We often like to keep our favourite bands in time capsules. We don't see them as people, but timeless and ageless rockstars whose music stays young as we grow old.

But this isn't really the case.

In the United States, the Library of Congress houses something called the National Recording Registry. Each year, a list of sound recordings that are deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." are preserved, presumably for as long as the United States exists, in the Library.

In the state of California, there is a specific Welfare & Institutions Code called a 5150, which allows authorities to place a person under an involuntary psychiatric hold if the person is, "as a result of mental disorder, a danger to others, or to themselves.”

In 2001, two students at Wesleyan College in Connecticut started messing around with stock loops on their laptops, making dance songs as a joke. They'd write ironic songs about being superstars and living the rock star lifestyle while drunk in their dorm rooms at 3am, before putting on fur coats and performing in friends' living rooms.