Flipping through the channels last night, I happened to stumble on something we rarely see nowadays: a real live rock concert.

The Who played a show at the Gaumont… More

We expected a second coming of Björk, but instead found the first coming of Sleepy Sun. More

You’ve most likely seen the numbers on US prisons that have been making the rounds. More than one in every hundred adults in the United States is in jail or prison, amounting to more than… More

Last night’s Colbert Report featured a highly comical video that sums up the sticky contradictions in medical marijuana policies between state and federal governments. Click onward for… More

I’m about to prod one of my own sacred cows here, but I caught this interview with Phil Anselmo of Down / Superjoint Ritual /… More

Not too long ago we rolled up to the Paid Dues festival in San Bernardino (a SoCal celebration of underground Hip-Hop’s finest) and tracked down… More

Portugal. The Man is one of those bands that you just never find out about if a friend doesn’t tell you about them. They’re not really for mass consumption, and their… More

It’s comforting to know that while the Arctic Monkeys’ approach may change from album to album, their growth as musicians and songwriters continues, and we continue to… More

We first noticed Pop Levi back in June of last year, when he cleverly posted a pair of clips on YouTube of himself and a bandmate, each playing half of his song… More

A new pied piper is here to lead American teenagers to grisly demises: MP3s that get you high. More

Ozzy Osbourne has finally penned an autobiography. It may only blur the line separating myth from reality. The fiction and non-fiction alike may only get stranger and… More

This year’s Electric Daisy Carnival was precisely what you might expect for the biggest electronica event in the nation: 150,000 neon-and-lingerie-clad partygoers, all pupils and… More

Down is one of the best, and one of the coolest, metal bands working today. Its members are purebreds: Jimmy Bower of Eyehategod, Kirk Windstein of Crowbar,… More

Richard Wright
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The story’s been told: heroin-ravaged fame-hating guitar genius fights back from the brink and finds enlightenment in his new awakening. But John Frusciante’s always been… More

Compulsive online gaming is becoming a significant reason behind the recent upswing in college student dropouts, according to Federal Communications Commissioner Deborah Taylor… More

When Jenny Lewis took her first steps away from Rilo Kiley, she had the Watson Twins as a sonic compass to help guide her through… More

Animal Collective’s ninth album has been ecstatically anticipated by many, and on paper I can understand why. They proved their soundscapes prowess with Here Comes The… More

Dillinger Escape Plan frontman Greg Puciato took a head-first leap down the psychedelic rabbit-hole with disastrous results, and we explore what went wrong – and right. More

After Soul Coughing broke up in 2000; frontman Mike Doughty released his solo record Haughty Melodic to critical acclaim, and its single… More