Enough with all this rough-and-tumble punk and indie stuff. Rock 'n' roll is all about revolution, and what could be more revolutionary than a whole new era of rockers drawing on the cosmically  …

Rough as day-old stubble and tougher than a two-buck Vegas steak, garage rock's cropped up in pop's consciousness every decade or two since the mid-'60s, as generation after generation rediscovers its  …

As different from Pink Floyd and Hawkwind as the space shuttle is from Sputnik, indie-era space rockers left the shoegazer scene behind to create a drone of their own. Who would've imagined that the pr …

Along with their even-more-glum cousins in sadcore, slowcore's doyens of downbeat s-l-o-w-w-w-w-e-d their tempo to a heart-stopping crawl, paring arrangements to bare-bones minimalism. And true to thei …

Experimenting in the underground, post-rock pioneers expanded - no, rewrote - rock's definition, reassembling a whole new beast from spare parts. Guitar-keyboard-bass-drums-vocal? Out. Ve …

From its underground-treasure status at hip college radio (and even hipper record stores), indie rock took up just too much historical and psychic space for a single playlist. So we've returned for a s …

Flanked by New York on one side and L.A. on the other, the Midwest's gangsta rap scene pumped loud and proud to get recognition. For mile-high-top-sportin' Detroit MC Kid Rock, getting noticed was no p …

Long before gangsta rap reared its Jheri-curled head, the music of choice was soul . . . and disco . . . and doo-wop . . . and funk - sounds that would one day be sampled and reimagined by the gangsta  …

Say hello to gangsta rap's little friend - the shotgun-blastin', cannoli-chompin', pinky ring-smoochin' Mafia flick. Tony Montana and Michael Corleone loomed large in the G-rap imagination, their explo …