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Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List

​What makes a terrible band? Is it being prepared to do the wrong thing, whatever the price? That and a pair of testicles. Only, some of the below groups possess testicles only in the symbolic sense. Because, even if you're composed of ladies, it takes balls to make music that is simultaneousl ... More >>

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #5-1

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #15-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #10-6 5. Animal Collective I really wanted to like Merriweather Post Pavilion, even going far out of my way to appreciate the record as it was surely intended: super-stoned, mi ... More >>

Natalie Wood Murdered? Husband Robert Wagner 'Not a Suspect,' Says L.A. Sheriff

Trouble in paradise?​Could Hollywood darling Natalie Wood's fatal drowning in 1981 have been darker than the simple accident it was once ruled to be? Wood and her husband Robert Wagner (truly L.A.'s royal couple at the time), along with their actor friend Christopher Walken, were night-boatin ... More >>

Into the Abyss Review

Werner Herzog checks in after the murders, before the death penalty

Day 3: Hannibal Moncrief, Class Warfare, & The Hollow Earth

​ A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirements for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no ... More >>

I Am Ozzy: Soon-To-Be Classic Quotes from Ozzy Osbourne's Upcoming Autobiography

​There are some amazing sentences in Ozzy Osbourne's new autobiography, I Am Ozzy. In fact, the book starts off with a classic disclaimer: Other people's memories of the stuff in this book might not be the same as mine. I ain't gonna argue with 'em. Over the past forty years I've been loaded ... More >>

Swiss Miss: Roman Polanski Loses Bail Bid

The first inning of what could prove to be long losing game for director Roman Polanski ended Tuesday with Swiss authorities rejecting his application for bail. The Associated Press quoted Swiss justice ministry spokesman Folco Galli saying, "We continue to be of the opinion that there is a high ris ... More >>

Weiss' 25 Best Non Hip-Hop Songs of 2008 (A-L)

Graffiti originally spotted on Bedford Ave., Williamsburg in 2002--soon followed by copycat crimes on Silverlake Blvd. and San Francisco's Mission District. Now playing at a Hot Topic near you. For spread-the-wealth reasons, this list was restricted to songs from albums that did not make the Top ... More >>

Wanted and Desired: Was Roman Polanski a Pedophile?

New documentary focuses on Chinatown director’s 1977 rape trial

In Plain Sight's Concealed Federal Witnesses and Swingtown's Suburban Sexual Adventurers

Hide and seek

Immortal Mayhem

It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy

T. Rex, Baby.

A love song to the immortal Marc Bolan, and critical guide to the new T. Rex reissues

California Dreamin’

A love song to the immortal Marc Bolan, and critical guide to the new T. Rex reissues

Foghat Does Quaaludes, Wille Does Reggae

A love song to the immortal Marc Bolan, and critical guide to the new T. Rex reissues

Party Flavors

Real-Life Tales

In Too Deep

In the summer of 1981, porn legend John Holmes stepped into an abyss of drugs, mayhem, and murder. Meet the wife and the girlfriend he almost took with him

Gonna Make You Groove

Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous

Fine, Thank You

Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous

Loco Mosquito

Iggy Pop, time and the American Way

Crown and Punishment

Iggy Pop, time and the American Way

Man Against the FUD

How Eric Raymond became the ambassador for the open-source movement -- and why he hasn't quit

Plastic Disasters

Playing havoc with your credit gives him a charge

Nightlife

Playing havoc with your credit gives him a charge

Thunderbox

Playing havoc with your credit gives him a charge