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Wendy O. Williams always said she liked to make "aggressive art," and that's what she did as the front woman for '80s punk-metal band The Plasmatics — sporting a Mohawk...
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With 1988's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Chuck D and Public Enemy positioned hip-hop as "the CNN of black culture," raging against the machine while bringing...
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The guys in White Demons may occasionally wear eyeliner and tight jeans, but there is not a single song about a chick on this CD and not one stinky whiff of shitty emo. What...
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There's just something so awesomely asinine about a hicked-out country cover of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus," which is the leadoff track on this EP of eclectic, acoustic...
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The Weary Boys and Rose's Pawn Shop show is the best double bill in bluegrass for both purists and evolutionists. RPS has a malleable alt-country sound, wrapped up in...
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In eyelinered Chicago goth-pop wanna-bes Kill Hannah's sort-of hit "Kennedy," singer Mat Devine brags that he wants to be a Kennedy and, after living fast and breaking hearts...
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You don't have to be a dork to like Primus, but these days it sure helps. Dismissed by critics and hipsters alike as "cartoonish weirdo wankery" and almost universally named...
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Voted most likely to bring an accordion and dance-punk beats to the emo-kid table at lunch, the exquisitely dressed young men of Panic! At the Disco took their first step down...
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When it made its first crude, unintelligible blast onto the metal landscape, no one could have foreseen that Napalm Death would do anything other than flare out into obscurity...
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Fuck amps that go to 11 — Tim Carroll lives life with the volume ratcheted up to 20. The 48-year-old gay vocalist for Minneapolis punk foursome Faggot is hardly shy about...
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The SYR series of recordings were the right idea at the right time. Issued via Sonic Youth's imprint — beginning in 1997 and continuing, albeit sporadically, to the...
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The first-ever mix CD to come from Napoli's Marco Carola shows no signs of amateurism. After all, Carola is quite familiar with techno, having been DJing at least since 1990,...
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Downtown Phoenix seems to be a ginormous cluster-fuck of urban progress these days. Between the massive mess of light-rail construction and a few new skyscrapers going up,...
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Thursday 7 AZ 88: Mr. P-Body (synth pop, electro)
Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance)
Cat Eye: DJ Diesel (rock, punk)
The Crown Room: DJ Gable (rock, house, hip-hop)
Dos...
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1. Snoop Dogg, The Blue Carpet Treatment (Geffen)
2. Akon, Konvicted (Umvd)
3. Jay-Z, Kingdom Come (Roc-a-Fella)
4. Incubus, Light Grenades (Sony)
5. The Game,...
