In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...

Few musical bonds have lasted like that of Johnny Rzeznik and Robby Takac. And few bands have as consistent a catalog as Goo Goo Dolls. The rock lifers from Buffalo, New York, know who they are — ...

Inside the inner circle of the Goo Goo Dolls, they’ve got a term for the hit songs everyone wants to hear. “We sort of laugh and call them the Dirty Dozen like,” says Robby Takac, founding member and ...

Afghan Whigs singer Greg Dulli during the late 1990s said something to the effect that the Goo Goo Dolls put Soul Asylum out of business. There’s a greater connection between the bands, however. Three ...

The mainstream came to The Goo Goo Dolls, The Goo Goo Dolls didn’t come to the mainstream. The Buffalo, New York, band had been making scrappy punk meets power-pop albums since the late ‘80s for Metal ...

In a world where one-hit wonders ruled the music scene – one band, the Goo Goo Dolls, became a mainstay on the alternative charts with several hits throughout the late '90s and well into the 2000s.