Curated playlist
Culture of California
- McDonald'sIn 1948, the McDonald brothers fired all 20 of their carhops and cut the menu to nine items.
- MetallicaIn 1986, a tour bus overturned in Sweden and killed Metallica bassist Cliff Burton.
- Green DayGreen Day is an American rock band whose own lead singer once called its name "the worst band name in the world." Billie Joe Armstrong said so in 2001. The name came from Bay Area slang for an entire day given over to smoking marijuana.…
- HippieThe word hippie first appeared in a 1965 San Francisco Examiner article.
- Nu metalThree nu metal albums came out on August 18, 1998. Billboard later called it the "Biggest Day in Nu-Metal History".
- Red Hot Chili PeppersThe Red Hot Chili Peppers played their first show on the 16th of December 1982, at the Grandia Room, a club on Hollywood Boulevard, in front of roughly 30 people. They did not yet have that name. The poster billed them as Tony Flow and the…
- Linkin ParkLinkin Park formed in 1996 in Agoura Hills, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, and went on to sell more than 100 million records worldwide. Its founders were high school friends with a bedroom studio and no record deal. Years of…
- Grateful DeadIn August 1991, a television crew from PBS watched the Grateful Dead play at Shoreline Amphitheatre, and guitarist Jerry Garcia offered a strange confession about his own band. "We didn't really invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented…
- DisneylandDisneyland's opening day was such a disaster that insiders called it Black Sunday.
- University of CaliforniaThe University of California began as a merger of a broke college and a school that existed only on paper.
- Cinema of the United StatesIn the mid-1940s, 90 million Americans went to the movies every week. Studios made roughly 400 films a year.
- In-N-Out BurgerIn-N-Out Burger opened its first Colorado restaurant in Aurora in 2020, and the wait for a burger stretched past fourteen hours. Local police had to step in to direct traffic around the lot. The crowd was not there for anything exotic. It…
- ZorroZorro first rode into print in 1919, and the novel that introduced him eventually sold more than 50 million copies. That figure places The Curse of Capistrano among the best-selling books of all time. Its author, the American pulp writer…