Timeline

Gil Scott-Heron

Pioneering Poet

PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2010

Gil Scott-Heron's voice has been described as a mixture of "mahogany, sunshine and tears," but recent decades have worn it down to a weary...

Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields

It's Only Time

PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2010

Whimsical curmudgeon Stephin Merritt is undeniably one of the most significant artists of the past 20 years. A clever wordsmith equally dev...

Blue Rodeo

Better Off As We Are

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2009

It's easy to take something for granted when it becomes as integral to your cultural identity as an accent or even the changing seasons. Fo...

Slayer

Reign Supreme

PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2009

"Slayer!" Second only to pleas for Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird," virtually every concert-goer of the past quarter-century has heard this pas...

Kris Kristofferson

The Pilgrim's Progress

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2009

Kris Kristofferson has been many things over the course of his 73 years so far: Rhodes Scholar, soldier, janitor, actor, activist, outlaw....

Jay-Z

Beyond <i>Reasonable Doubt</i>

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2009

Despite the fact that he's Beyonce's husband, a former CEO of Def Jam Records and a part owner of the New Jersey Nets, the most valuable an...

Voivod

To <i>Infini</i> and Beyond

PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2009

Quebec progressive metal band Voivod have an influence that can't always be heard in today's musical climate, but can most certainly be hea...

Dinosaur Jr

PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2009

The members of Dinosaur Jr were never meant to survive more than an introduction, let alone five albums and a budding reunion. It wasn't ea...