It's not easy being a U2 fan these days.   The band's massive popularity and scale, coupled with their populous rhetoric, makes it kind of...

R.E.M. are indie rock's Beatles.   Like the Fab Four, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry codified the genre, then laid o...

When it comes to extreme metal, Cannibal Corpse unquestionably lead the pack. Their success and popularity is unparalleled in their genre, w...

From her humble beginnings to her prolific solo career (not to mention a diverse array of collaborations), Julie Doiron's music is woven int...

They don't make rock stars like Josh Homme anymore. Frankly, they never did.   A one-of-a-kind songwriter, producer and performer with a s...

While he's primarily known as the frontman for Faith No More, Mike Patton has worked with an extensive number of bands and musicians across...

It's been nearly half a century since Charlton Heston crash-landed on Earth (whoops, spoilers!) and helped change the course of modern sci...

Chris Cornell contained multitudes. A wailing banshee who would transform into soulful crooner — sometimes across just a few bars of music —...

The earliest releases by Phil Elverum (who, at the time, was still spelling his last name as "Elvrum") firmly embraced the era of lo-fi reco...

Blondie are a new wave group from when that was actually new; a punk group with clear vocals and pop hits; a rock'n'roll group whose best-kn...

The recorded output of Stephin Merritt — the songwriting brains behind the Magnetic Fields and an assortment of side-projects including Futu...