Timeline

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  Josh Homme

  King Of Queens

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

  "I think most bands play by this false set of rules that doesn't exist — while we know that there aren't rules." The southern California de...

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  Nas

  Battle Ready

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  It may seem like inane bickering to those outside hip-hop culture but battling — whether in a freestyle cipher or on wax — is an intrinsic...

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  Tom Waits

  Grim Weapers and Grand Weepers

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  Tom Waits has three children, and at one point when they were still quite young, they asked him why he doesn't have a straight job like eve...

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  They Might Be Giants

  Tall Tales

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  Many bands find entire career defined by a single song or pigeonholed by a single style and are unable to shake it. Being called a quirky,...

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  The Vandals

  Independent Punk Superstuds

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

  Composed of one the most versatile and skilled drummers in music today, a guitarist who spends his spare time creating sexually explicit ar...

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  The Cure

  Three Imaginary Decades

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

  Against their wishes, they helped define goth with a series of early, dreary albums, only to subsequently revoke any leadership or responsi...

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  Beastie Boys

  More Rhymes Than Grey Hairs

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2004

  It was a joke. At least that's what most people thought when a trio of obnoxious Jewish teenagers who rapped about "wenches on benches" and...

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  Merle Haggard

  The Last Outlaw

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  Country music is a funny thing. Along with jazz, it is considered one of the purely American art forms. Yet, for all its traditions, countr...