Polish Gypsy accordionists and Black Sabbath (and Pink Floyd) – like peanut butter and ketchup.

So our favorite Barbadian honeydip Rihanna has been widely acclaimed for her dramatic style shift from curly-haired island girl to edgy, asymettrical-haired rocker/glam chick.

You know you want to watch 9 year old Japanese kid Yuto Miyazawa play guitar on “Crazy Train” with Ozzy Osbourne.

Yesterday the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office ruled that Michael Jackson’s death was a homicide.

NO. Seriously. I like techno, and I’m sick of taking your crap about it. There’s this bias against techno that personally, I think is bullsquid. Yes, so maybe many of the people th…

Roxanne Shante made it big by becoming one of the first female Hip-hop stars to burst onto the scene after her 1984 single “Roxanne’s Revenge” sold 250,000 copies in NYC alone. How…

Here are my choices for top 5 badass guitars and the players who loved them. Enjoy. 5. Randy Rhoads – Jackson V Granted Rhoads burst onto the scene playing a Gibson Les Paul Custom…

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2009 is more than half over, so it’s time for a mid year best-of list. Here are my favorite songs of the year, to date.1. Animal Collective – My Girls from Chad von Nau on Vi…

If you haven’t had a chance to check out the new Radiohead single “These Are My Twisted Words” then I suggest you do yourself a favor and… check it out. A refreshing song from Ra…

Britney Spears? N’Sync? Vanilla Ice? Chaka Kahn? No… Surprising as it may be, the worst music ever wasn’t sang by any of them. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet BrokenNCYDE. Truly, the …

What’s that? It’s the tracklist for Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3. Some young bucks stepping up like Kid Cudi and Drake in addition to the usual suspects e.g. Kanye, Rihanna, Pharrell. D…

I’ve been quite an avid collector of vinyls since inheriting my parents’ dusty collection 15-some years ago. Although the glut of Chicago and Elton John were great, I decided to ex…

Sad news this morning, as guitar legend Les Paul has gone to his great reward. In addition to being one of the most iconic players of the jazz and rock & roll era, Les made mod…

Sunday night at Lollapalooza was a showdown. First Lou Reed played 25 minutes longer than he was supposed to. Lou Reed can eat one. His 25 minutes of extra time seemed like ego tri…