Career suicide. That's what could have happened when AFI's founding members decided to drop out of college and pursue punk rock full-time. Instead, they spent most of the '90s building a cult fo …

One of the easiest ways to understand AFI's roots is to plow through their EPs, especially their cover-song choices on All Hallow's and A Fire Inside: the Misfits ("Halloween") and the Cu …

Few people have quite so gleefully disproven F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous statement about there being "no second acts in American lives" as has David Byrne. After redefining the notion of what rock mus …

His followers - especially his fellow New Yorkers - know that David Byrne is as much a fan as a performer, constantly popping up at other artists' concerts, and consistently keeping up with the cutting …

While their closets are overflowing with faded arena rock shirts - from guitar heroes like AC/DC and Def Leppard - the All-American Rejects are basically a chart-clobbering pop band with chiseled cheek …

In the scheme of the hardcore hip-hop scene, Fat Joe came before Big Punisher, helping the latter score a deal with Loud Records somewhere along the way. That said, Big Punisher was the first platinum- …

The Wu-Tang Clan wasn't the only larger-than-life group churning out posse cuts in the late '90s. With Big Punisher and his mentor, Fat Joe, at its helm, the Terror Squad busted out of the Bronx with a …

Believe it or not, Tevin Campbell was barely 11 when he was first touted as Quincy Jones' protTgT, a claim backed up by the buttery, Michael Jackson-like melodies (circa the Jackson 5) of the #1 R&B si …

Time for a quick quiz: The Rolling Stones are to classic rock what Built To Spill is to what? And the answer is . . . indie rock! Whether or not you filled in the blank correctly, everyone in the audie …