Fall Out Boy's Pete WentzFour years and a handful of side-projects later, Fall Out Boy surprised pretty much everyone when they announced their return earlier this year. Armed with a new album and tour, the band sound ready to pick up where they left off when the Chicago rockers went on "indefinite hiatus" back in 2009....Read More
Jamie LidellAlthough a United Kingdom native through and through, Jamie Lidell is a bit homesick for his home base in Nashville right now. But the eclectic singer/producer has been doing this long enough to understand that putting in the final prep work before heading on world tour — in support of his...Read More
Jim JamesMy Morning Jacket front-man Jim James drops his solo debut, Regions of Light and Sound of God, this month. Breaking free from the Louisville, KY band's psychedelic guitar-obsessed Southern rock sound, Regions boasts more hypnotic bass grooves and disco-dazzled synths. But this solo excursion...Read More
Ke$haMost people know Ke$ha as the glitter-happy pop star who brushes her teeth with a bottle of Jack and killed James Van Der Douche. But few people knew Kesha Sebert was also a massive fan of the Flaming Lips until she appeared on the Oklahoma band's recent album, The Flaming Lips and Heady...Read More
Ben GibbardAnyone intimately familiar with the work of Death Cab for Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard knows he's fairly prolific. Besides a solo album under the moniker All-Time Quarterback in 1999, an LP as half of the electro-pop duo Postal Service, and a collaboration album with Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar,...Read More
St. VincentAnnie Clark, aka St. Vincent, has always excelled at the weird and wonderful. Her collaboration with legendary musician David Byrne, Love this Giant, is confoundingly glorious: big band rhythms, digital bleeps, and chunky electric guitars create a bizarrely cinematic landscape. Occasionally,...Read More
Alanis MorissetteIt's been 17 years since Jagged Little Pill tempestuously stormed the Can-con heyday of Céline Dion, and roughly the same amount of time since Alanis Morissette snuck an eff word onto the Grammy Awards. Many will recall her legacy to be one of pop-tinted aggression (not a completely...Read More
Smashing Pumpkins' Billy CorganIt's been a long road to Oceania, the seventh LP (eighth, if you count the first free internet release by a major artist, 2000's Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music) by the Smashing Pumpkins. After reviving the alternative rock juggernaut for 2007's Zeitgeist with...Read More
Tenacious DAfter some licks from critics and fans for their 2006 album and film, The Pick of Destiny, Tenacious D return undaunted and ready to kick some ass. The Hollywood-based comedic rock duo of Jack Black and Kyle Gass purportedly almost called it a day after Destiny was deemed a box office...Read More
Norah JonesNorah Jones has never quite shaken off the wide-eyed ingénue persona of her debut, 2002's Grammy-winning Come Away With Me. But her new record Little Broken Hearts ― chock full of grown-up problems like messy break-ups, murder fantasies, and infidelity ― should shatter any...Read More
Joel PlaskettJoel Plaskett is done second-guessing himself. The darling of Dartmouth's 2009 album, Three, was a boundless sprawl of 27 songs on three separate disks. Three years later, he's daring to show some restraint. Plaskett's latest release, Scrappy Happiness, consists of ten songs recorded...Read More
Napalm Death's Mark "Barney" GreenwayFor over two decades, Mark "Barney" Greenway has been the frontman of Napalm Death, one of the UK's most influential and revered grindcore bands. He has also defined the group's message over the years with thought-provoking lyrical content rooted in political and philosophical themes. Napalm...Read More
Donald Glover aka Childish GambinoWhen in his rap alter-ego Childish Gambino, actor-writer-comedian-musician Donald Glover dismisses the thought of being perceived as an actor with a side hobby. Still shooting episodes for NBC's cult sitcom Community (currently on midseason hiatus), Glover is looking at doing a feature film...Read More
Megadeth's Dave MustaineDave Mustaine is one of the most iconic and universally recognized personalities in the realm of heavy metal. His music career has spanned 30 years and he is recognized as one of the most significant lead guitarists and metal vocalists of all time. His career began with a brief, but extremely...Read More
William ShatnerWilliam Shatner has done it all, but even at 80 years old, he's constantly exploring new professional frontiers. Despite all this, there's no way he'll be enshrined in pop culture as anything other than Captain James T. Kirk. Star Trek and the fanaticism it generates is an enduring...Read More
Ben FoldsAfter 18 years of tickling the ivories, Ben Folds could be forgiven for wanting to take a moment to reflect on his past. But it seems The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective, wasn't his idea. "It was a contractual obligation that I'd put off for some time," he says. "I don't think...Read More
Today is the Day's Steve AustinFor nearly 20 years, Today is the Day have been making completely insane experimental metal. The band's front-man Steve Austin is known for a few things: he's a legend of extreme metal; he's Today is the Day's only consistent member in a band known for frequent line-up changes (more than 15 members...Read More
Fiery Furnaces' Eleanor FriedbergerFor the last 11 years, Eleanor Friedberger has been sharing a band with her big brother Matt. As the quirky, prog-leaning pop duo Fiery Furnaces, the Friedbergers have had an incredible run that saw them release eight full-lengths as well as a double live album between the years of 2003 and 2009....Read More
Bad Meets Evil's Royce da 5'9"The backpack rap crowd of the late '90s salivated for a full-length collaboration between devilish wordplay mates Eminem and Royce da 5'9" after the Detroit duo dropped the "Nuttin' to Do" single on independent Game Recordings in 1999 and Royce burned through a cameo on Marshall Mathers' classic,...Read More
Fucked Up Damian AbrahamDamian Abraham is many things to many people. He is the vocalist for Polaris Prize-winning hardcore art weirdos Fucked Up, the host of a recently relaunched The Wedge on MuchMusic, an MC who dropped his first verse on D-Sisive's Jonestown 2, and one of the most fanatical record...Read More
Four years and a handful of side-projects later, Fall Out Boy surprised pretty much everyone when they announced their return earlier this year. Armed with a new album and tour, the band sound ready to pick up where they left off when the Chicago rockers went on "indefinite hiatus" back in 2009....Read More
Although a United Kingdom native through and through, Jamie Lidell is a bit homesick for his home base in Nashville right now. But the eclectic singer/producer has been doing this long enough to understand that putting in the final prep work before heading on world tour — in support of his...Read More
My Morning Jacket front-man Jim James drops his solo debut, Regions of Light and Sound of God, this month. Breaking free from the Louisville, KY band's psychedelic guitar-obsessed Southern rock sound, Regions boasts more hypnotic bass grooves and disco-dazzled synths. But this solo excursion...Read More
Most people know Ke$ha as the glitter-happy pop star who brushes her teeth with a bottle of Jack and killed James Van Der Douche. But few people knew Kesha Sebert was also a massive fan of the Flaming Lips until she appeared on the Oklahoma band's recent album, The Flaming Lips and Heady...Read More
Anyone intimately familiar with the work of Death Cab for Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard knows he's fairly prolific. Besides a solo album under the moniker All-Time Quarterback in 1999, an LP as half of the electro-pop duo Postal Service, and a collaboration album with Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar,...Read More
Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, has always excelled at the weird and wonderful. Her collaboration with legendary musician David Byrne, Love this Giant, is confoundingly glorious: big band rhythms, digital bleeps, and chunky electric guitars create a bizarrely cinematic landscape. Occasionally,...Read More
It's been 17 years since Jagged Little Pill tempestuously stormed the Can-con heyday of Céline Dion, and roughly the same amount of time since Alanis Morissette snuck an eff word onto the Grammy Awards. Many will recall her legacy to be one of pop-tinted aggression (not a completely...Read More
It's been a long road to Oceania, the seventh LP (eighth, if you count the first free internet release by a major artist, 2000's Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music) by the Smashing Pumpkins. After reviving the alternative rock juggernaut for 2007's Zeitgeist with...Read More
After some licks from critics and fans for their 2006 album and film, The Pick of Destiny, Tenacious D return undaunted and ready to kick some ass. The Hollywood-based comedic rock duo of Jack Black and Kyle Gass purportedly almost called it a day after Destiny was deemed a box office...Read More
Norah Jones has never quite shaken off the wide-eyed ingénue persona of her debut, 2002's Grammy-winning Come Away With Me. But her new record Little Broken Hearts ― chock full of grown-up problems like messy break-ups, murder fantasies, and infidelity ― should shatter any...Read More
Joel Plaskett is done second-guessing himself. The darling of Dartmouth's 2009 album, Three, was a boundless sprawl of 27 songs on three separate disks. Three years later, he's daring to show some restraint. Plaskett's latest release, Scrappy Happiness, consists of ten songs recorded...Read More
For over two decades, Mark "Barney" Greenway has been the frontman of Napalm Death, one of the UK's most influential and revered grindcore bands. He has also defined the group's message over the years with thought-provoking lyrical content rooted in political and philosophical themes. Napalm...Read More
When in his rap alter-ego Childish Gambino, actor-writer-comedian-musician Donald Glover dismisses the thought of being perceived as an actor with a side hobby. Still shooting episodes for NBC's cult sitcom Community (currently on midseason hiatus), Glover is looking at doing a feature film...Read More-2---c.-of-Roadrunner--s.jpg)
Dave Mustaine is one of the most iconic and universally recognized personalities in the realm of heavy metal. His music career has spanned 30 years and he is recognized as one of the most significant lead guitarists and metal vocalists of all time. His career began with a brief, but extremely...Read More
William Shatner has done it all, but even at 80 years old, he's constantly exploring new professional frontiers. Despite all this, there's no way he'll be enshrined in pop culture as anything other than Captain James T. Kirk. Star Trek and the fanaticism it generates is an enduring...Read More
After 18 years of tickling the ivories, Ben Folds could be forgiven for wanting to take a moment to reflect on his past. But it seems The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective, wasn't his idea. "It was a contractual obligation that I'd put off for some time," he says. "I don't think...Read More
For nearly 20 years, Today is the Day have been making completely insane experimental metal. The band's front-man Steve Austin is known for a few things: he's a legend of extreme metal; he's Today is the Day's only consistent member in a band known for frequent line-up changes (more than 15 members...Read More
For the last 11 years, Eleanor Friedberger has been sharing a band with her big brother Matt. As the quirky, prog-leaning pop duo Fiery Furnaces, the Friedbergers have had an incredible run that saw them release eight full-lengths as well as a double live album between the years of 2003 and 2009....Read More
The backpack rap crowd of the late '90s salivated for a full-length collaboration between devilish wordplay mates Eminem and Royce da 5'9" after the Detroit duo dropped the "Nuttin' to Do" single on independent Game Recordings in 1999 and Royce burned through a cameo on Marshall Mathers' classic,...Read More
Damian Abraham is many things to many people. He is the vocalist for Polaris Prize-winning hardcore art weirdos Fucked Up, the host of a recently relaunched The Wedge on MuchMusic, an MC who dropped his first verse on D-Sisive's Jonestown 2, and one of the most fanatical record...Read More
