Maybe, maybe, maybe there's a small chance you haven't heard of Northern State, the N.Y.C. white girls who are, bar none, the indie world's top all-female rap crew — if...
Nine Inch Nails main man Trent Reznor makes the most of his recent hard-won freedom on the two-disc, all-instrumental Ghosts I-IV. It's the kind of record Interscope probably...
Although Army of Anyone features half of the Stone Temple Pilots and former Filter lead singer Richard Patrick, the group's whole isn't greater than the sum of its parts. None...
Musically, the '90s boil down to this: In January 1992, grunge gods Nirvana knocked pop king Michael Jackson off the No. 1 position on Billboard's album chart. And for most of...
The Warped Tour is fine, but it has a little filler. The Strhess Tour, on the other hand, boasts only five headliner-quality acts, and they're all hard and heavy. Topping the...
The white rapper is the new black quarterback. Even after the Beastie Boys' License to Ill became the first rap album to top the charts, and even after Vanilla Ice sold as many...
The Cure's new record is its first since Robert Smith disbanded the group following 2000's underrated Bloodflowers, and it was produced by Ross Robinson, whose...
Nearly a year after the Summer of Screamo, there still isn't a good term for bands like Every Time I Die -- "post-hardcore" and "melodic hardcore" don't say enough, and most of...
Ani DiFranco once said metaphorically that she has both spots and stripes. Righteous Babe Records' Bitch and Animal literally have both: Bitch sometimes has a row of dots over...
In a rap-rock world that spews more than its share of suspect rhetoric -- it's been a while since Fred Durst actually delivered a beatdown -- Linkin Park is more candid than...
"Disorder," Slayer's 1994 collaboration with Ice-T, went over like a fart in church. The lame soundtrack cut stands unique in a catalog nearly devoid of filler. Most of the...
