Bamboozle is just around the corner, and all this week we'll be bringing you The Buzz On a few of the festival's acts so you can know before you go. ...
In honor of Kurt Cobain, who died 18 years ago last month, this week's 120 Minutes is packed with videos by musicians inspired by him like Cloud Not...
The new book " Lost in the '90s " tells the story of a teenage boy from 2012 named Kurt who travels back in time to April 1994, on the eve of Kurt Cob...
Brit Marling is not necessarily a name you know, but it's a name to keep an eye on all the same. The actress and co-writer of "Another Earth" is back ...
Popular rock bands are popular precisely because they make music that the "masses" can get behind. But there's also been cases of popular rock bands g...
Once upon a Low Profile rhyme, Paid Dues was conceived as the subterranean sibling to the old school-rooted Rock the Bells. With its initial focus on...
The Seattle scene of the late eighties and early nineties produced some of the most beloved rock bands not just of the last twenty years, but of all-t...
The first time I witnessed just how angry old people get when young people don’t respect the Beatles enough was at a Billy Crystal stand-up show in t...
Although '50s country stars the Louvin Brothers ostensibly titled their most famous album Satan Is Real to warn people about the demonic influence o...
It's pretty ballsy to take on a cover of Nirvana , but on Amanda Palmer 's "Polly" cover, it took no balls at all (get it?). OK, maybe a few, from h...
On Saturday night, 3,000 fans filed into the cavernous, cement cube that is New York’s Terminal 5 venue for a sold-out show from two of indie-rock's m...
The following conversation between Patti Smith and MTV Networks’ Bill Flanagan took place in front of an audience at MTV Days in Turin, Italy on June ...
Opening with time-distorted audio and slow-motion shots of the band jamming outside in front of a blank wall, Deer Tick 's "Main Street" video featur...
Pharrell wears his military hat two days in a row: at Art Basel Miami Beach on Nov. 30 and at the Dior pop-up shop in Miami City on Nov. 29. Photo: Wi...
It used to be that musicians simply made music. But now that everything is about “synergy,” success for musicians can’t just be measured in album sale...
Last night’s (October 11) pre-taped airing of the BET Hip-Hop Awards 2011 was accented by what has become a growing tradition at the gathering of rap ...