"Never have I had a rational mind," Sallie Ford spits out defiantly between stomping drumbeats and coolly fuzzed-out reverb guitar chords that hang ominously in the air on her aptly titled third album, Untamed Beast. "Never gonna apologize for being so intense. How the hell would that make any... More >>

Emphasizing the cultural diversity thing, Filter's annual rock and pop extravaganza boasts a nicely varied slice of some of the best bands we've currently got going in L.A. and beyond, as Culture Collide includes acts from England, France, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Hungary and Singapore.... More >>

Primal Scream have always been most comfortable exploring the boundary between rock and rave, although that also means the group's sound is regularly stranded in the purgatory between good and weird. Ever since 1991's game-changing Screamadelica, the output of these groovy Scottish... More >>

Atoms for Peace is the super-est of supergroups. Composed of Radiohead's Thom Yorke, along with that band's uber-producer Nigel Godrich, The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, R.E.M./Beck's Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco, the group's collective love of Fela Kuti–style Afrobeat spawned Atoms... More >>

One of the great things about the sprawling, three-ring circus known as Gogol Bordello is that no animals are ever harmed during their riotous performances. Except for human animals, that is. Lead singer Eugene Hutz usually remains unscathed when he flings himself about the stage, climbs into... More >>

It's sometimes forgotten today, but when Gary Numan first emerged as a solo performer from the ashes of his breakthrough band Tubeway Army, in 1979, rock critics initially dismissed the English singer as a mere clone of David Bowie. At the time, the classic-rock establishment was seriously... More >>

Remember life before Low End Theory? So quiet. So normal, even. Seven years ago, if you wanted your head to explode, you really had to work at it. But then Low End revealed itself as a new beginning, as founders Daddy Kev, Nobody, Gaslamp Killer, Nocando and edIT (later succeeded by D-Styles)... More >>