Music

They have me on a short leash here," Cedric Bixler says as he tugs on his microphone cord for extra slack.
October 30, 2003 at 12:00 am

E-Town Concrete epitomizes Jersey music - they've been perfecting their mix of hip-hop and metal since 1995, long before rap-rock hit mainstream.
October 23, 2003 at 12:00 am

Highly anticipated doesn't even begin to describe sentiment towards The Strokes' new album, Room On Fire. This being only their second effort, the hype that surrounds these five New Yorkers has been working harder than a crackhead on speed.
October 23, 2003 at 12:00 am

Gray Davis, Recalled Governor of California -- The public relations nightmare that came about after the RIAA sued a twelve-year-old girl forced the Industry to refine their suing strategy.
October 16, 2003 at 12:00 am

W.A.S.P: ANIMAL (FUCK LIKE A BEAST) EP Meaning lies somewhere in this cover, I just need some time and a few analytical essays to unlock the secret.
October 16, 2003 at 12:00 am

Dave Navarro once said that going solo is the kiss of death. Then he went solo. Now he's playing guitar for Christina Aguilera at the MTV Video Music Awards.
October 2, 2003 at 12:00 am

Dan Larkin knows Liam & Me are going to make it. "We all are," he says over the phone from Gainesville, Fla.
October 2, 2003 at 12:00 am

Aaron Lewis may be a moping and MTV-friendly Fred Durst suck-up, but his band isn't half bad live. On Saturday, Staind and Sevendust kicked off the first day of their tour with a sonic flurry of rock proportions. As Sevendust's Thundercats-esque red and black flag descended, testosterone coursed madly through the audience's veins.
October 2, 2003 at 12:00 am

James Reimer does not exactly stick out like a sore thumb alongside his 23 other band mates in The Polyphonic Spree.
September 25, 2003 at 12:00 am

The guitars disappeared, but the clouds of depression hanging over A Perfect Circle's music have not.
September 25, 2003 at 12:00 am

Regular Guys is an intelligent, interesting and entertaining German film. Although intensely boring, it's a fantastic movie if you watch it in well spread-out 15 minute chunks.
September 25, 2003 at 12:00 am

Off the crystal meth and back in the studio, Rufus Wainwright puts forth his most sober and self-reflective album to date.
September 25, 2003 at 12:00 am

With the release of You Forgot It In People, Broken Social Scene was catapulted from an unknown Canadian band to one of the most talked about groups in indie rock.
September 25, 2003 at 12:00 am

I'm not a metalhead, and as I pushed my way through the bearded and pierced attendees of last Thursday's Andrew W.K.
September 18, 2003 at 12:00 am

Remember that song "Ugly" that had you "throwin' 'bows" at the party and wishing you were from Hicktown, Georgia?
September 18, 2003 at 12:00 am

Nicholas Payton gets more ass than Wilt Chamberlain -- on one of his better days. And it's not as though this classically trained trumpet player is keeping it a secret.
September 18, 2003 at 12:00 am

Ah, the memories... I remember my first step into punk when I heard MXPX covering "Summer of '69." I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Since then, I have ditched Christian pop-punk, and so has MXPX on their new LP, Before Everything and After. That may not be a good thing in their case.
September 18, 2003 at 12:00 am

You could make a drinking game out of all the different Scottish inventions. Golf. Adhesive postage stamps.
September 11, 2003 at 12:00 am

Attention, indie head-bobbers! Dressy Bessy's self-titled album, their third release, is one of the catchiest albums of the year.
September 11, 2003 at 12:00 am

Dave Matthews, Some Devil, September 23 (RCA) Choosing to leave the band out of his name and album, Dave Matthews embarks on the tricky path of creating a solo album.
September 11, 2003 at 12:00 am