Category: Artists

The varied spectrum of rap music personalities includes few true superstars- individuals whose credentials encompass the grittiest street reverence as well as the jiggiest pop-life glamour. A charter member of hip hop’s most celebrated and influential modern group, The Wu-Tang Clan, and an award-winning solo artist and budding cinematic thespian, the gravelly-voiced rhyme-ologist known as […]

As the history of popular music develops, one fact shines through: talent wins. You can’t cheat and survive for any length of time. You can’t hype and fool people more than once. You can’t hide behind image makers, or alluring videos, or the cut of this season’s clothes. Or you can – but then you […]

Eight years since the release of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ debut LP, Devil’s Night Out, and you’re either fully aware or subconsciously manipulated by mainstream attempts to cash in on…Aah, let’s just cut to the fucking chase: This band has been doing what they do — playing original ska-core — forever, and it’s just now […]

MDFMK. Rarely have five letters meant so much and yet revealed so little. Attempts to pronounce the word have proven futile and even dangerous to the uninitiated. Is it an acronym? Does it stand for something? These and other questions will be answered in good time, but only in the cryptic, brain-skewering style of MDFMK. […]

Alt-rock pioneers the Meat Puppets have never been afraid to experiment during their impossible to pigeonhole 10-album career. Backwater bluesy chord progressions, country rock rhythms, 60’s psychedelia, and punk rock aggression have all seen service, often twisted by the band’s wry and offbeat sense of humor. Unfortunately for their fervent fans though, aside from an […]

Marvin Lee Aday was a singer and occasional actor who, for reasons never definitively answered, recorded under the name Meat Loaf. In all likelihood a childhood nickname, the tag stuck, and many puns followed as the performer — who tipped the scales at well over 300 pounds — became one of the biggest chart acts […]

The London-based electronic group Medicine Drum consisted of Chris Deckker, Andy Guthrie and DJ Chrisbo. Deckker travelled to India, Bali and Africa to study the rhythms, sounds and styles of each locale, while Guthrie produced and wrote songs with Children Of The Bong and Banco De Gaia. The trio made their debut in 1996 with […]

While you may already be more than familiar with her, she is about to release a debut solo album, which is guaranteed to take everyone by surprise. Anticipation will be rife, and she will confound all expectation. Think re-birth, think total reinvention. And prepare yourselves for a shock. For the past five years, Melanie C […]

What a difference two years can make. It was early 2002 when Dave Mustaine suffered a debilitating nerve injury to his arm (literally after sleeping on it the wrong way), bringing his career – and the nearly 20-year history of his band, Megadeth – to a crashing halt. His prospects for playing guitar again uncertain, […]

On John Mellencamp, his fifteenth full-length album and first for Columbia Records, America’s troubadour-poet from Bloomington, Indiana, remains true to the signature elements of his sound and sensibility while exploring a breathtaking new range of universal and personal themes. For Mellencamp’s fans, who’ve bought more than 25 million of his records in the United States […]