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The 20 Worst Albums Of The '90s: 10-1

The 20 Worst Albums Of The '90s: 20-11 Sure, you had the Bill Clinton blowjob scandal, OJ, Pakistan and India going nuclear, mad cow disease, the Rodney King decision, and Titanic. But what made the '90s truly awful was its music. That's not to say that there weren't bright spots -- early Beck, say ... More >>

What's Better, Fifty Shades of Grey or Staind's 14 Shades of Grey?

[Editor's note: Deathmatch pairs two things that have something in common, and determines who is better. It's a concept we sort-of ripped off from MTV, except that instead of claymation it's the printed word!] Released in 2003, 14 Shades of Grey is the fourth studio album from alt-bro / tough-guys- ... More >>

You Can Bro Your Own Way: The Best Brocore Bands

*Everything You Wanted to Know About Metal but Were Afraid to Ask *Top Five Best Post-Hardcore Records What is "brocore," you ask? Well, brocore bands are usually white guys wearing baggy clothing and, often, gauged earrings. Their screamed lyrics are aggressive or brooding, and they tend to pace, ... More >>

Ten Rap-Rock Songs That Are Actually Awesome

See also: Crazy Town's Shifty Shellshock Is Out of His Coma! Here's Everything You Need To Know About Him Rap-rock remains the coolest idea ever. You've just been scared off of it by the mountain of terrible rap-rock in existence. Here are ten songs that prove the Woodstock '99-tainted genre could ... More >>

Why Limp Bizkit on Cash Money Makes Sense

See also: Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Limp Bizkit Had An Amazing Run It's confirmed: The Limp Bizkit-on-Cash Money era is upon us, whatever that might entail. We know because last week at the Laundry Bar in Melbourne, Austrailia, Bizkit/House of Pain turntabilist DJ Lethal spun "Ready to Go," the world ... More >>

Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Winds Of Plague And Their Endless String Of Hot Chick Keyboardists

Winds Of Plague​[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] Everyone has that one friend with whom intelligent conversation is a strain. You'll never share you ... More >>

Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Limp Bizkit Had An Amazing Run

They don't like hairy buttholes​Fred Durst was the Kanye West of his day. Not to say he was as talented. But at the height of Limp Bizkit's fame -- and make no mistake, this was hundreds of millions of dollars of fame -- he was the same type of beloved villain. He succeed in that era's popul ... More >>

Carson Daly On His Haters: "I guess I just don't give a fuck anymore."

Timothy NorrisCarson Daly​"How do you respond to the claim that most people under 30 have a negative, preconceived notion about you?" Carson Daly, who is 38, visibly winces when I ask this question, as if I've blown cigarette smoke in his eye. It's 11:30 a.m., and we're sitting on a leather ... More >>

9/11 Changed Everything For The Music Industry

​By Chaz Kangas September 11th brought irrevocable change to our society, and the music industry was no exception. It was also a very strange time; both rap group The Coup and metal band Dream Theater released album covers with the World Trade Center in flames. Radio DJs across the country, m ... More >>

Top Ten Greatest Videos from TRL's Heyday

​MTV turns 30 this week, and on Monday we spotlighted the five '90s shows the channel should bring back. The end of that decade, of course, saw the rise of Total Request Live, which kicked off in 1998, by which point MTV had long succumbed to the domination of reality shows. Part of TRL's appe ... More >>

With Godspeed on Our Side

How did an experimental political punk octet become the hottest ticket of the winter?

But Thaaat's His Life!

Nightranger: Steppin' Out

A Quickie with Buddyhead: Travis Keller on (Not) Selling Out, Growing Up and Buddyhead 2.0

Buddyhead: For the Children Since 1997The rules of rock can be quite complicated: never wear the T-shirt of the band you're going to see at the show, never play air guitar during a concert, and never -- ever -- crap on the tour bus. But what happens if you're actually in the band, what can and can' ... More >>

SXSW Day 4 (Pt. 2): On Rap/Rock, The Legacy of the Beasties, and Asher Roth Vs. The Knux

Almost 25 years have elapsed since the Rick Rubin-helmed, Licensed to Ill found the Beasties staking their claim as the first major rap group to incorporate guitar-hero rawk ("Rock Box" aside). Such juxtaposition seems prosaic today, but it's almost impossible to grasp how revolutionary sampling L ... More >>

SXSW Day 3: On Rap's "Little Emperor" Phase and Showing and Proving

Maybe we ought to blame Kanye--even though this trend started well before him, and will likely persist long after he retires to pursue French anime interior spaceship design. Like it or not, 'Ye's massive success re-removed a lot of barriers into the major label rap game. No longer did you need st ... More >>

An Interview With Nick Thorburn of Islands

Islands are playing the Henry Fonda next Tuesday. As your faithful attorney, I recommend that you attend. Their recent Arm's Way is one of the year's finest records and they put on a fantastic show. Plus, the last time I saw them play in LA, for their encore they decided to light Roman Candles o ... More >>

The Islands' "Arms Way," Islands' Kona Pie and The Pros of "Miscenegenation"

Last year when Sasha-Frere Jones wrote his now-infamous piece on the whiteness of indie rock, he repeatedly included the phrase "miscenegation" to describe the cross-pollination of sound between black and white music. The diction seemed deliberate, a molotov cocktail designed to rile up the chatte ... More >>

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Deftones at Avalon

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Rap metal is still dead. The Strokes are still cool. And your point is . . . ?

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Warhol, post-9/11

The Face of Pirate Cat Radio

Screwing the Airwaves Since 1997

Fish Fry

The whoppers that didn’t get away

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13: A Metal Glossary of Styles

Hard Knocks

Downset’s American prayer

Loving and Leaving the Phonograph

Why Napster, extraterrestrials, Southern hillbillies and Dick Clark mean more to the future of music than copyright and the Recording Industry Association of America

Radical Cheek

Digital Hardcore fans the femmes

Down for the Good Life

A Unified Revolution Called Jurassic 5

Neighborhood Bars & Nightclubs

This Is the Rock

Smashing Pumpkins: Headbangin' in the houses of the holy

Do U Know Us?

Armand Van Helden, Mos Def: A masculine equation

Bob Forrest Tells All

"Johnny Depp made me do it!"

Lunatik Derelikts

Free 2 B V & Legacy

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Thank the makers of Incubus

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Kid Loco's love song