The Smithereens' hits may have been powered by hard-charging, industrial-sized guitar riffs, but you can hear a '60s-obsessed British Invasion heart pumping at the center of it all. Merseybeat meets Je …

For all the talk about Nine Inch Nails and Ministry in the scheme of industrial music's mainstream impact, few, if any, artists have remained as close to that subgenre's template of stuttering samples  …

If "S**k" sounds familiar, it's because it was covered in a faster, frothier form on Nine Inch Nails' Wish EP. You see, Trent Reznor was once part of Pigface's revolving-door lineup, a supergrou …

Few breakout indie acts have earned as many "do they deserve it or what?" comments as Gossip. While they've been major icons in garage-punk circles and the gay community for years now, the Arkansas nat …

If there's one thing Gossip fans can agree on, it's the sheer knee-knocking raw power of the group's live shows, a bulldozer presentation built on the bare minimum setup of bassist/guitarist Brace Pain …

When critics declared Jonathan Fire*Eater the "future of rock 'n' roll" and consumers responded with a resounding "huh?," the band didn't fill their empty beer bottles to the brim with tears. They spli …

Still not convinced that the Walkmen aren't your average rock band, sweating bullets in a windowless New York City basement in hopes of "making it"? Good, because we're not done charting their brief bu …

Santana's most essential songs are drawn primarily from his first three albums with a unit that remained basically intact, with guitarist Neal Schon and organist Greg Rollie fronting the band's impress …

The songs of Rilo Kiley - a name that came to guitarist Blake Sennett in a crazy dream - are sparkling pop confections on the surface, but they've got a subversive quality at the center, and that cruci …