There will never be another Dismemberment Plan, which is why it's so exciting that there will be another Dismemberment Plan album. Two years of slowly building momentum -- a reissue, a tour, a wealth…   Read Story »

In March of 2011, when I published a book about Ween as part of the 33 1/3 series, it seemed as though the band would go on forever. At that point, core members Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo --…   Read Story »

It started in the sewer. Ugliness embodied. Noise like you’d never heard. The bellowing drawl of an unhinged slave driver, spitting abuse and mantras of degradation. "Nobody beats you like a…   Read Story »

The singular genius of Depeche Mode's music might be the way their songs inspire a gut-wrenching personal response. The best music is, of course, meant to do this, but when Depeche Mode started their…   Read Story »

The world has come a long way since the Who released Tommy in 1969. Tomorrow night, a stage adaptation of the Flaming Lips' seminal 2002 rock opera Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots will premiere at…   Read Story »

Over the course of his three-decade run as one of the preeminent geniuses in rock and roll, Bob Mould has shared a great deal of himself through his work, while somehow remaining something of a…   Read Story »

"Candy apples and razor blades, little dead are soon in graves / I remember Halloween / This day anything goes, burning bodies hanging from poles / I remember Halloween!" Thus cried Glenn Danzig…   Read Story »

"Big things have small beginnings." So says Michael Fassbender's character in Prometheus. He was referring to a blob of alien goo that would go on to spawn the monster that drives…   Read Story »

Attempting to rank songs by the Velvet Underground -- the '27 Yankees of rock-music catalogs -- is almost inevitably going to end in tears. Upon hearing of this assignment, our dear friend and fellow…   Read Story »

There's just no getting around it: writing about Leonard Cohen is an intimidating proposition. Trying to put into words the magic of Cohen's art is like trying to play a guitar solo about Jimi…   Read Story »