Nickelback

In Real Life: Perverse Pleasure and A Motown Tribute to Nickelback's Live Debut in NYC

On Friday night, a once-viral YouTube clip beamed down from cyberspace, materializing as a musical band of living, breathing humans who graced New York with an entire hour of genre-warped Nickelback singles. In theory, "A Motown Tribute to Nickelback" seems like the most heinous sacrilege, muddling ... More >>

Could Napalm Death Make Music If the World Was A Perfect Place?

The world according to Napalm Death is a terrible place where terrible people do terrible things; the methods those in power create and implement to increase injustice and suffering always improve, but everything else just gets worse. This seems like it would make remaining focused impossible, but N ... More >>

Why Scott Stapp Hated God And Other Revelations In His New Book Sinners Creed

These days, it's possible to feel a perverse nostalgia for Creed, the original kings of gloss-grunge Christosterone buttrock. After Stapp and co. burned out in a blaze of ignominy, Nickelback popped into their slot at the bottom of the critical totem pole so gracefully that we barely noticed. But Cr ... More >>

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A Sampling Of Hilarious Reactions To The Avril Lavigne-Chad Kroeger Engagement

I try to stay away from the celebrity gossip angle of music, but you guys, the news that perpetually "punk" tween Avril Lavigne is going to get married to fellow Canadian and Nickelback lead singer Chad Kroeger is too good to resist, particularly since every person in my Twitter feed felt like they ... More >>

12 Ideas The Olympics Committee Rejected Before Deciding To Have Liam Gallagher Sing "Wonderwall" At The Closing Ceremony

The latest rumor about how the Olympics will close themselves out next month comes from The Sun: "[Oasis's Liam Gallagher] will perform a new arrangement of... 'Wonderwall' with bandmates Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock." 12. All of the track & field competitors dress up like Benny Hill a ... More >>

Yoko Ono And Sean Lennon Rewrite "The Times They Are a-Changin'" To Protest Fracking; Rock And Roll Officially Dead

Rock and roll, 62-ish, died Friday at 30 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan after a courageous battle with poor taste. At the time of its death, rock and roll was surrounded by friends, family, and comedian Jimmy Fallon, as Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon -- the former wife and son (respectively) of Beatle Jo ... More >>

Rock of Ages Posits Hair Metal as Something Un-awful

Corporate rock still sucks

Dead Sara Will Set Your Stereo On Fire (In A Good Way)

A few weeks ago I was perusing the Billboard Rock Songs chart, which at present shows a genre in crisis—its ranks are split between the staggering dinosaurs of the nu-metal era, a few poppier rock outfits like Gotye and fun., and a bunch of bands that sound like slight variations on the old-ti ... More >>

Five Musicians Who Could Open Strip Clubs Way More Rock And Roll Than Vince Neil's Girls, Girls, Girls

Just in the nick of time—i.e., right before "Girls, Girls, Girls" dipped below the "20% of all music played in strip clubs everywhere" threshold—the Déjà Vu chain of strip clubs brought Motley Crue's Vince Neil on board to rebrand one of their Las Vegas locations as Vince Neil's Girls, ... More >>

Running The Numbers: The Four-Disc, 73-Track Bob Dylan Covers Comp With Miley, Ke$ha, Lenny, And Many Others

​Today Amnesty International releases Chimes Of Freedom, a really, really huge compilation of bob Dylan covers by artists both canonized and obscure. Trying to analyze such a huge undertaking can only be done in one way: Mathematically. Amount of music in this collection: 73 songs on four CD ... More >>

Sound Of The City's 11 Clickiest Posts Of 2011

We're about to close up shop here until 2012, and what better way to send out the year that birthed trollgaze than to run down the 11 posts on Sound of the City that generated the most pageviews over the course of the past 52 weeks? Enjoy this look back on the psyche of our readers, and have a happy ... More >>

Sound Of The City's 2011 NBA Preview: Each Team, Paired With An Album From The Past Year

Think of the orange car as a clue. ​The resurrected NBA season kicks off (thankfully, finally) on Sunday. To celebrate, we've paired each team with a notable album from the past year; the list, with tweet-sized justifications, is below. (NB, although the NBA-savvy of you might have already fig ... More >>

Nine Fantastic And Thoughtful And Perfect In Every Way Gifts For The Music Fans In Your Life

​How many gift guides have you read that started off by reminding you that "the holiday season is fast approaching"? Probably too many by this point. If you're like me, you just get stressed out and close the tab before even realizing that some of them have awesome suggestions. Don't do that h ... More >>

Q&A: Scott Bradlee On Revamping Nickelback, Taste Hierarchies, And Screaming Words

via Facebook​During the Nickelback brouhaha that took over parts of the Internet earlier this month, one of the common refrains against having the Canadian band perform at the halftime show of the Thanksgiving Day showdown between the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions involved the select ... More >>

So... How Was Nickelback's Big Thanksgiving Performance?

via FoxNo word on how many petition signers were in this section of the crowd. ​Thursday was not only a day for Americans to get together and indulge in pie and for Lady Gaga to indulge in some ego-stroking; it was the culmination of the Great Anti-Nickelback Movement that gripped the country ... More >>

Presented For Your Thanksgiving Enjoyment: A Cornucopia Of Songs With "Pie" In The Title

Today is Thanksgiving here in the States, and in addition to getting irritated by Nickelback's existence, lots of Americans will probably celebrate by eating pie. The word "pie" is a bit more prevalent in the lyrics of non-"Weird Al" Yankovic-crafted popular music than one might a dessert to be, but ... More >>

Nickelback (And Paul Scheer) Try To Figure Out Why Everyone Hates Nickelback

​Why do people hate Nickelback enough to craft petitions inveighing against their inclusion in the halftime entertainment of a regular-season NFL game? (Even the Black Eyed Peas' Super Bowl appearance didn't inspire such e-ire!) I tried to figure this out two weeks ago and maybe sorta did, at ... More >>

We Love to Hate Nickelback (and Lulu)

Two recent bad decisions—one in Detroit, one on an album—bring out the knives

This Week in the Voice: Ray Kelly's Secret List, Boring Married People

​This week in the Voice, out today: Graham Rayman reveals the existence of Ray Kelly's list of police officers who cannot be transferred without his personal approval. "The list, which the Voice obtained from an NYPD employee, is part of a 23-page spreadsheet that contains the names of 2,300 o ... 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 >>

100 & Single: Considering The Album-Chart Class Of 9/11, 10 Years Later

​A king of hip-hop, retaking the penthouse of the album chart with his latest blockbuster. A middle-of-the-road rock band, reviving a turn-of-the-'90s "alternative" sound that's now squarely mainstream. A sexagenarian legend who debuted in the '60s and who still captures Boomers' hearts and ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Shinedown's Marathon Of Rock-Radio Domination

​ One of Billboard's biggest recent chart records was set last week, when Katy Perry marked 52 consecutive weeks in the top 10 of the Hot 100. She became the first artist to stay there for the entire year thanks to four singles from her sophomore album Teenage Dream, all of which peaked at No. ... More >>

SXSW 2011 Will Feature A Panel Titled "The Case Against Christopher Weingarten"

Well allow him to retort. Oh my. Beloved SOTC cohort Christopher R. Weingarten, he of the remarkably profane rants against music-blog culture, has ascended to such heights that he has now inspired an SXSW answer panel. This March, get down to Austin, Texas, by any means necessary for... Curatoria ... More >>

MAD AS HELL

Jamie Kilstein has some ideas for Obama

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 19: Nickelback, "Something In Your Mouth"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. That Chad Kroeger, what a crazy bitch.

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K, No. 23: Santana feat. Chad Kroeger, "Into The Night"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. Come back, Rob Thomas; all is forgiven. Just before the turn of the century, Carlos Santana released Supernatural, a multi-vocalist organism that went 15 times platinum and featured the likes of Everlast, Dave Matth ... More >>

American Idol Runner-Up Comes To Broadway--Again!

Constantine Maroulis was a replacement player in The Wedding Singer opposite Broadway baby Amy Spanger, but now he gets to originate a role--once more opposite Ms. Spanger--in the jukebox show Rock of Ages. CLICK HERE on the new column and find out what the Greek-American singer has to say about a ... More >>

Bernie Madoff Mocked at Party!

Fortunately, lots of people—well, gay people—still care about Broadway.

The Worst Lyrics of 2008

The Worst Lyrics of 2008: NCAA-Style Showdown

Nickelback's Shitfaced Nights and Blowjob Queens

A freshly reunited nation struggles to take this band seriously

American Idol Week Six: The Archuleta Problem

Bernie Kerik's MySpace Mood is Determined

Grow Up Like a Rock Star

LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy sheds his cool and unites the Guitar Hero III–addled masses

L.E.S. Soundsystem

For those about to rock, we review you

Some of Us Really Like Icky Thump

VH1's Rock Honors: A Running Diary

More tough talk from America's catchiest badasses

Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight

Nickelback U.K.

The press-fattened Arctic Monkeys roll loudly, wittily, competently on

Wiggerstock

White lines: A new book examines hip-hop's crossover appeal

Mastodon: Metal's Last Best Hope

The Death and Possible Rebirth of Alt-Rock Radio

Mariah Carey Beats 50 Cent on Billboard Year-End List?

A History of Violence

Hustle and dough: 50 Cent fine in debut, but G persona precludes emotional honesty

Sometimes a roil works even if it’s planned well in advance

Flight Club

Seeking a band of airborne rebels, a dancer and a swordsman get lost in orgasmic set design

Big With the Kids

Corporate Rock-Hack Bands Nobody Over 20 Ever Heard of Rule America

999 Luftballons

Shameless Eurocheese Puts the Tears and Tempo Back Into Dance Music

Who Needs Eminem?