Timeline

Green Day

Longview From Gilman Street

PUBLISHED May 22, 2009

They were darlings of the underground, then spokesmen for a generation of apathetic MTV youth. And just when it seemed like everyone had wr...

Pet Shop Boys

PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2009

After first meeting in a synthesizer shop 28 years ago, Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant have developed into one of those rare acts still reinve...

Eric's Trip

A Love Supreme

PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2009

Eric's Trip was born of intense emotions, which have been articulated starkly in their music together and apart. Led by shy but visionary a...

Neko Case

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2009

From go-go dancing punk rock drummer to a singer-songwriter of compelling artistry, the still-unfolding success story of Neko Case is indee...

From Seattle to the Stone Age

PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2009

With the 20th anniversary of the Seattle scene's insurgence fast approaching, the ghosts of its fallen figures will still not be allowed to...

Common

Soul By the Pound

PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2008

On the cusp of releasing his eighth album Universal Mind Control, Common has proven himself to be one of the most durable and versatile MC...

HERBERT

Pitch Control

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2008

It could be argued that over the span of a vitally relevant 13-year run, British electronic artist Matthew Herbert has done more for the po...

AC/DC

Bleak Days and Black Rock

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2008

Without AC/DC, rock’n’roll would be pretty drab. Virtually everyone has been inspired — directly or indirectly — by the infectious tendenci...