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X Japan Is the Biggest Rock Band in Their Homeland -- Can They Finally Break Through in the States?

X Japan's Yoshiki on Lollapalooza, Hide, and Taking Over America with Japanese Rock

Jonathan McNamaraX Japan moments before playing Lollapalooza 2010. Left to right: Pata, Heath, Yoshiki, Toshi, and Sugizo.​I'm riding in an elevator up to the highest floors of Chicago's Ritz Carlton with publicist Heidi Ellen Robinson-Fitzgerald. For a sweet lady, she represents some hard-hit ... More >>

Ranking The Beatles: 40 Years Later

​This week marks 40 years since the release of Let It Be, the 12th and final studio album produced by The Beatles. A lot has happened in almost a half-century, but the music of the Fab Four is standing the test of time and John, Paul, George and Ringo are just as popular now as they were in May 19 ... More >>

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Watershed
(Nonesuch)

San Francisco Strings

Kronos Quartet's David Harrington waxes melodic on '07

The Beatles

Love
(Capitol)

Go Ask Alice

Phoenix’s resident shock rocker gets the old band back together

Scissor Sisters

Ta-Dah
(Universal/Motown)

The Kids Are Alright

Classic rock lives on in the hands of youngsters the Redwalls

The Beatles

Let It Be . . . Naked (Capitol)

That '80s Sound

With help from Wilco and the Gin Blossoms, Tommy Keene chases down the sound he was after 20 years ago

Famous and Tired

Pop stars complain about their jobs like everyone else. Here's what's happened when some of their gripes have actually made it to tape.

Mogwai

Rock Action (Matador)

SWAG

Catchall (Yep Roc)

Locals

Catchall (Yep Roc)

Sub-mission

After 30 years, Apple finally does Yellow Submarine right

Brand New Year

The Bottle Rockets' Brian Henneman gives up on the music biz, and settles for just making music

Letters

The Bottle Rockets' Brian Henneman gives up on the music biz, and settles for just making music

Beach Blanket Bacchanal

XXX marks the spot at Lake Havasu, "amateur porn capital of America"

Home Truth

Local musicians increasingly find their bliss in the parallel universe of home recording

Go E-Mail Alice

Local musicians increasingly find their bliss in the parallel universe of home recording

Pepper Spray

It was 20 years ago this week that Sgt. Pepper dropped a bomb on movie theaters, so where's all the rerelease hoopla?

Risky Business

Seventeen years after its advent, sampling remains mired in legal and aesthetic controversy

Paul's Rocky Revival

With new book and home video, Paul McCartney tries to get in the last word on his fab past

Emotional Miscues

Stones, Dylan and McCartney struggle to redefine themselves with new albums

All His Talent Seems So Far Away

Stones, Dylan and McCartney struggle to redefine themselves with new albums

Pic Hits for the week

Stones, Dylan and McCartney struggle to redefine themselves with new albums

Ten Scariest Concept Albums of All Time

Dreck or treat

The Earth Reinherits Joe Meek

A new retrospective sheds light on the dark side of Britain's most ingenuous record producer (don't send his soul to hell)

Recordings

A new retrospective sheds light on the dark side of Britain's most ingenuous record producer (don't send his soul to hell)

When Paul Met Gerry

What would have happened to rock'n'roll if Lennon and McCartney had never been properly introduced?

WHO'S THE FIFTH LED ZEPPELIN?

What would have happened to rock'n'roll if Lennon and McCartney had never been properly introduced?