While our Deep Cuts usually involves a quick retreat underground, the Neptunes have a hard time writing anything but hits. In fact, they've written so many floor-fillers over the past couple decades th …

The 21st century sorely needs multi-cultural chanteuse Natacha Atlas, whose North African, Arabian, European, and American influences make her "global" in the most exciting sense of the word. Her solo  …

From Pop Art sonic montage to high-concept rock opera, from "Maximum R&B" to "Maximum Rock," Pete Townshend steered the Who through a career full of mind-blowing changes, all the while penning some of  …

Ultimately, what drives the Who's sound - and nearly drove the band crazy - is four wildly idiosyncratic identities submerging themselves into a massive sonic cauldron of churning rhythm, overdriven vo …

Ad-Rock, Mike D, and MCA were wisecracking New York hip-hop kids who grew up in public and went on to conquer the world. They were crazy enough to push hip-hop to its limits and beyond, but crafty enou …

The Beastie Boys started as scrappy teenage pranksters bringing a screwy sense of humor to the hip-hop scene on kooky cuts like "Cooky Puss." By the '90s, they were flexing their funk muscles, firing o …

When they formed at the tail end of the '90s, Avenged Sevenfold were still in high school, which got us thinking - how did they go from the demon-spawn delivery of their debut, 2001's Sounding the S …

While many fans consider City of Evil the point where Avenged Sevenfold dropped their chord-chopping, mic-scorching metalcore sound for arena-ready hard rock, the Orange County band was already  …

Rodgers & Hammerstein didn't just dominate American musical theater in the '40s and '50s - they owned it. Their groundbreaking work together not only brought a new level of emotional depth to mu …