November 23, 2008. That'd be the day Guns N' Roses broke 15 years of silence with the shape-shifting insanity of Chinese Democracy. It wasn't the only reason to toast the state of rock music, either. W …

While Gavin Rossdale and Scott Weiland spent 2008 on more of a solo tip (the teeth-gnashing guitars and merry melodies of "Missing Cleveland," the piano-led sensitive sides of "Love Remains the Same"), …

The last record-breaking book in the Harry Potter series wasn't 2007's only headline-hogging event. The year was also full of ravenous rock records - riff-slinging singles that took the title of Fall O …

Don't worry. Your ears aren't playing tricks on you. The skittish beats and dreary drone tones of "Lie" really are fronted by Limp Bizkit guitarist/face-paint expert Wes Borland. It's not the only side …

If you had the soul (and flouncy shirts) of a consumptive 19th-century poet and the musical circuitry of a 25th-century android - and you were turning heads on the streets of London's Soho during the e …

There was plenty of cross-pollination within the ranks of the New Romantics, which is why you'll find common threads across a fairly disparate array of styles. Gary Numan ("Are 'Friends' Electric?") af …

Far too many months have passed since you've "made 'em say ugh" with Master P, let alone "backed that azz up" alongside the lowrider bounce of Juvenile - don't you think? One cursory listen to these cl …

Since hip-hop is pop music now, it's easy to forget the early days, as artists like Afrika Bambaataa, Kurtis Blow, Whodini, Grandmaster Flash, the Sugarhill Gang, and the Jungle Brothers defined …

While Chuck D, Flavor Flav, and the rest of the Public Enemy crew sounded the alarm with siren wails and frenzied funk loops in the `80s ("Bring the Noise," "Public Enemy No.1"), the Reagan years also  …