While it's hard to see BeyoncT as anything but a spotlight-stealing solo star these days, 2000 was the bridge between two of her biggest crossover albums with Destiny's Child, Survivor and Th …

When you're at a house party and the end of the night's close at hand, you have two options. One: crank the nearest stereo until it's two seconds from exploding, leaving a trail of smoke alongside the  …

Don't let corpse paint canisters, convicted murderers, and a whole lotta "hail Satan!" posturing scare you. Beyond the sordid, blood-caked history of black metal is the heaviest, richest - and, yes, da …

Much like the underground side of punk rock and hip-hop, black metal's always thrived on the demo-dubbing, tape-trading efforts of its most fanatical followers. That's why we treated the following trac …

"That's Entertainment," sing the gang from director Vincente Minnelli's milestone musical The Band Wagon, and talk about understatement. If the film remains one of the cinema's great achievement …

Consider the great American composers behind our MGM Musicals playlist and it's no wonder that these tracks stand the test of time, and then some. The toe-tapping rhythms and scintillating suavi …

As Tommy Ramone once said, "By 1973, I knew that what was needed was some pure, stripped down, no bull**** rock 'n' roll." In other words, the birth of punk had as much to do with raging against the pr …

There's nothing like your first basement show or all-ages club gig - a shock to the system on par with, say, getting thrown head first into a tub full of ice water. The final stage of our Punk Rock< …

The height of hardcore punk was unequivocally the '80s, when the outright hedonism of the Sex Pistols gave way to the socially conscious screaming of bands like Minor Threat. Their "In My Eyes" single  …