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25 Classic Metal/Hardcore Photos from Louder Than Hell

If you've got a lot of time on your hands and a heart full of darkness, you'd be wise to check out Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal, out Tuesday on Harper Collins/It Books. The key word in that title is "Definitive." This is quite a weighty tome, over 600 pages across every twi ... More >>

A Handy Guide To Help Determine Whether or Not Your Band Tattoo Is Awful (Spoiler: It Is)

Last week the Daily News broke the story about New York Jets coach Rex Ryan's tattoo, a Lost-like Easter egg pregnant with allegory and symbolism that held all the clues to the mysteries of the Jets woeful season on bungling purgatory island. It was, in case you missed it, an image of his wife weari ... More >>

Your Frighteningly In-Depth Guide To Insane Clown Posse's Upcoming Record The Mighty Death Pop!, Featuring Kreayshawn, Ice Cube, Color Me Badd, and a Christina Aguilera Cover

On August 14, Insane Clown Posse will deliver their 12th studio album, The Mighty Death Pop! The last time Detroit's finest punching bags released a full-length original album, September 2009's Bang! Pow! Boom!, they gave the world "Miracles," an unintentionally hilarious viral-video ode to giraffes ... More >>

The 11 Most Infuriating Songs of 2011

More reasons to turn off the radio

The 11 Most Infuriating Songs Of 2011, No. 8: Tyler, The Creator, "Bitch Suck Dick"

The Song: Tyler, The Creator, "Bitch Suck Dick" The Crimes: Ugh. There really is no winning when one discusses the output of Tyler, The Creator, the leader of the West Coast hip-hop collective Odd Future, a skateboard-riding LA dude who this year showed the world that he loved the Neptunes and his ... More >>

Why Do People Loathe Nickelback So Much? (And Do They Deserve It?)

​People are in a bit of an uproar over this week's announcement that Nickelback—the Canadian post-grungers whose seventh album, Here And Now, comes out later this month—would be the halftime entertainment during the Thanksgiving Day NFL tilt between the Detroit Lions and the Green ... More >>

Jessie J Continues To Try Just A Bit Too Hard

​Videos like the one for "Who's Laughing Now," by the not-quite-launched-here pop irritant Jessie J, are made for slow music-news mornings like this one—the enterprising pundit can question the wisdom of a British pop singer releasing a "fight those people who are tormenting you by break ... More >>

Yelawolf Lords Over The VIP Section On "Hard White (Up In The Club)"

​ The fleet-tongued Alabama MC Yelawolf has been making the rounds on the Warped Tour in advance of his major-label debut Radioactive, which comes out next month, and last night that album's first single leaked. "Hard White (Up In The Club)" is a flip of the club-jam with Yela using the settin ... More >>

Limp Bizkit Lean Into The Backlash On Gold Cobra

​It's been a little over a decade since Limp Bizkit's Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water became the fastest-selling rock album of all time, a record that's at this point unlikely to be broken. Generally speaking, being a cultural phenomenon on that scale for even a fleeting mome ... More >>

Let's Pay Tribute To International Make Out Day In Song

Yes, apparently May 12 is the day where you're supposed to grab someone (whether a friend, a "friend," or a stranger) and, to quote the people putting this holiday on, "take a few minutes to enjoy what is probably the most singularly positive human experience ever." Hey, it's not a holiday that was ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? The Final Chapter: Katy Perry Is A Bad Feminist But We Are All Vulnerable Somehow

This has been Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We're sad to see it go. Sleigh Bells frontlady Alexis Krauss, you deserved your ... More >>

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 2: Artists Against AIDS Worldwide, "What's Goin' On (Fred Durst's Reality Check Mix)"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. Super lame songs by charity "supergroups" have been the most expensive form of self-parody ever since Bob Geldof scribbled the word "Do" in "Do They Know It's Christmas." Since its mid-'80s "We Are The World... A ... More >>

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 8: Limp Bizkit and Johnny Rzeznik, "Wish You Were Here"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. America: A Tribute To Heroes was a true television feat--put together merely 10 days after the 9-11 attacks, presented without commercials on over 35 channels, raising millions of dollars for the families of WTC vict ... More >>

News Roundup: Krist Novoselic, Drake, Black Keys, Iggy Pop

--Krist Novoselic is running for public clerk in Washington as a member of the Grunge Grange Party, a community service-driven group that was popular among farmers in the 1870s. Novoselic, who is the chairman of the Wahkiakum County Democratic Party, is not running to win, but to promote the party. ... More >>

The Education of Charlie Banks: Fred Durst's Second Film?!?

Week in Review: Stop Trying to Establish Visual Rapport with A Blind Man, and Stop Yelling at Him, Too

photo of Bodega zaniness by Rebecca Smeyne In the week the Jonas Brothers attempted to bring light to the blind, we watched the Grammys set race relations back 20 years. Chris Brown and Rihanna missed the ceremony, but you already knew that, didn't you? We talked to actor Elliott Gould, TV host a ... More >>

We Don't Mean to Alarm You, But Limp Bizkit Is Reuniting

Relive the magic. Read it (i.e. limpbizkit.com) and weep, suckas: The boys are gettin' the old band back together. From Fred Durst and Wes Borland's joint statement: "We decided we were more disgusted and bored with the state of heavy popular music than we were with each other. Regardless of whe ... More >>

Crack Pot Theories

Don't like Mexican drug cartels? Stop smoking their shit!

The Longshots

Music and September 11

Gregg Singer Chopping Landmarked P.S. 64 Now!

Do the Wright Thing

Career woman and taxi driver explore post–9-11 jitters

How to Imagine the Party They Fought for the Right to Never Let Up

Motor Suburb Madhouse

Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP

Rap-Metal in the Winter Sky, and 99 Dead Problems Go By

Part of the Heart of the City

Nü Romantiques from Nü York resuscitate fading sounds of life by goosing grooves slow

Nashville Catches Up

A pair of country goofballs boogaloo down Broadway with their rappin' buttload of friends

Singing School

Serious musician demonstrates the virtues of hard work to the Save the Music foundation

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Rough Trade

Little Johnny and Big-Biz Music Duke It Out Over Peer-to-Peer Software

Drag Kings Make Me Wet

Fade to Black

The End of Frivolity as We Know It

Metal Gets Sentimental

The Belated Return of Loud Mushy Rock

Rock Boxed

She Pop

Lava Baby’s Lips Are Not Sealed

Where the Streets Have No Shame

Stinkonia

Motor Suburb Madhouse

All Ears

Disney Dreams Up the Best Radio Station in 30 Years

Jonathan Davis, Public Freak on a Leash, Lashes Back

The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Stank of the Crowd

Politics of the pit

Politics of the Pit

Where Do We Go Now? The Aftermath of Rapestock

Gag Reflex, 35 Cents Off

Back to the Funkture

Nookie Monster