Dan Weiss

Tool doing stuff we would've thought badass when we were 13

A Report Card for the Shitty Music I Liked In Junior High

Here's the thing about '90s alt-rock: when you're a kid learning guitar, it is the work of heroes. Then some of those kids get older and realize Collective Soul's "Heavy" wasted an awesome riff on a formulaic, mediocre song. We took a trip down memory lane and revisited the albums......
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Five Best "Awful" Prince Albums

How can an artist be hailed as one of the greatest of all time, when a big chunk of his later career is dismissed or hated on by his fans? Sure, lots of young firecrackers age into old snoozes and perhaps this means they're not the greatest of all time......
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The Albums the Critics Were Wrong About

Two thousand eleven was the year in which musicians were praised for embracing their essences. M83 gets even more epic! Bradford Cox gets even more introverted! Drake gets Draker! The members of Wild Flag still rock! Artists were also derided for the obvious: Odd Future proves they don't give a......
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Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Limp Bizkit Had An Amazing Run

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......
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The Problem With Lana Del Rey (Is You)

See also: Is Lana Del Rey The Kreayshawn Of Moody, Electro-Tinged "Indie"? Why have singer-songwriter Lizzy Grant and her press people taken to depicting her as a "Lolita in the hood" and a "gangsta Nancy Sinatra"? Perhaps she doesn't feel she is very interesting. At least, not interesting enough to......