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The file-sharing service music nerds still mourn: a website where you queued songs, a tiny program called Satellite that kept hunting for them while you were away, and forums that turned strangers into Italian-prog-rock experts. Audiogalaxy rose when Napster fell in 2001 and went dark on June 17, 2002, the day it settled with the record industry.
The last day of school in 1976: freshman hazing with paddles and ketchup, a keg party at the moon tower, Aerosmith tickets, and Matthew McConaughey's Wooderson leaning on a car. Richard Linklater's 1993 hangout movie bombed, then became the film 90s teenagers claimed as their own.
Austin trio Fastball broke through in 1998 with 'The Way,' a song that transformed a real couple's tragic road trip into an anthem of eternal possibility. Written by Tony Scalzo after reading about the true story of Lela and Raymond Howard, the track spent seven weeks at #1 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks and earned two Grammy nominations. It was the band's commercial peak—a moment of mainstream success they'd never replicate.