Nirvana (Musical Group)

Green Day's Dookie -- 15 Years Later

Yes, you silly monkey, throw it alreadyOn this week 15 years ago, East Bay punk stalwarts Green Day released their career-defining album, Dookie. Yeah, I said career-defining. Say what you will about American Idiot and what it did for the band (skyrocketing them into mega-stardom), but Green Day wo ... More >>

Cartridge Family

Musicians with munitions

The Price of Payola

Someone's listening after all

Encore Performance

Don't fret. Guitar Hero II kills the opening act

The Melvins

Grunge zero

Annals of Mediocrity

Dream On

Alive and picking

Death Pool for Cutie

Everybody's gotta go sometime

Jack Endino

Permanent Fatal Error
(Wondertaker)

Nirvana

Sliver: The Best of the Box
(Geffen)

No Way Out

The final spiral of a tormented musician

Big Cheese

Valley export Mark Davis plots to kill his lounge-pimp alter ego, Richard Cheese

Suicide Squeeze

SuicideGirls.com is this punk-rock kid's wet dream come true

The Exploited

Heed the cry from the Scottish anarchists

Dem Blues

The left, turning right, was plain wrong

to attack pop culture

AFI

Sing the Sorrow (DreamWorks)

Tangential Rage

Ex-Meat Puppet Curt Kirkwood, now with Eyes Adrift, rambles on for the sake of rambling

Hart to Heart

Former Hüsker Dü drummer/songwriter is content to be quiet, independent and alone

Charlie Hunter Quartet

Songs From the Analog Playground (Blue Note)

Rebel Rouser

The recently rediscovered Lee Hazlewood finds his place among a new generation of fans

We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews

Daniel Sinker, editor (Akashic Books, $16.95)

Two for One

On a new split double disc, the Young Fresh Fellows and the Minus 5 revive good-natured pop-rock

PJ Harvey

Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (Island Records)

Modern Day Calvinism

A new documentary recounts how a small band of insurgents led by musician and K Records co-founder Calvin Johnson helped fashion a punk-rock revolution

Phoenix or Busted

The Valley is now the prime way station for ruthless smugglers engaged in the lucrative trafficking of human cargo -- illegal immigrants

Unconsciously Brilliant

Restless Records' Flaming Lips anthology recounts the early chapters of one of indie rock's finest

Recordings

Stoner Rock Royalty

Queens of the Stone Age finds tipped-out serenity in its private desert oasis

Eat the Document

Rock Club Rising offers a window into the glories and debacles of the local club scene

Send In the Clones

Man . . . or Astroman? reproduces the new-fashioned way

Recordings

Chain Saw of Fools

Where do Wendy and Rob rate among rock's most marginal contributors?

Club Scout

American Without Tears

Blur trades its status as Britpop laureate for a dose of Amerindie messiness

In the Belly of the Beast

It may be a dark, dank dive. But rockers, skaters and skinheads call it home. Now, the last real bar in downtown Tempe is on the eve of destruction.

Recordings

Recordings

Spun, Spun, Spun

Something Old, Something New

In 1996, punk was murdered by its parents and resurrected by its children

Shango-La

Pulling influence from Cobain as well as Coltrane, Charlie Hunter leads the charge for alt. generation jazz

Recordings

Wushu Clan

Dark Riders

Heavy-metal cowboys Pantera don't play none of that "hokey-pokey music"

Recordings

Cowboys From Hell

BASSIC INSTINCTFROM THE MINUTEMEN TO FIREHOSE AND NOW SOLO, MIKE WATT IS ALWAYS ON TRACK

OASIS--BRITAIN'S SAVING FACE OR THE NEXT BIG NOTHING?

KING HEROD OR ROCK 'N' ROLL JESTER?GALEN HEROD TAKES YET ANOTHER STAB AT QUITTING HIS DAY JOB

YOKO BRINGS JOHN'S ART TO SCOTTSDALE?

LOOK WHAT'S POPPED UP THE WONDER STUFF MINES AN OLD VEIN FOR NEW SOUND