• Stepfather Factory

    When I was twelve, my stepfather (Scott Bivans) beat my mother to near death. He liked to drink. Full story

  • The Guy In Shades

    TIGA is our nigger. That's why we've never done anything on him before. You feel like you're being lazy if you do something on your nigger. As George Bush put it, "I didn't mention Canada because I thought it was understood. They are our brothers." Full story

  • Time Has Come Today

    Last year The Yeah Yeah Yeahs played their first gig. Singer Karen O came out slicked down in oil wearing only heart-shaped pasties on her breasts, and the band played so hard they blew headliners the White Stripes off the stage. Full story

  • Beats And Rhymes

    All boundaries and classifications between different genres of music are now null and void. It is official. This is not up for debate, this is the truth. Full story

  • Fiending To Get Off

    In a rap game teeming with hungry MCs fiending to get put on, Invincible's story is all about fiending to get off. At 17 she came to NYC from Ann Arbor, MI, and hung out at the Lyricist Lounge, eventually joining the all-female Anomolies posse. She stayed for the next three years… Full story

  • Electric Independence

    They say only two things come out of Texas: steers and queers. But now that Dallas label Downlow Recordings has just released their latest bomb electro-disco EP you can also add “top-notch techno label” to that list. Full story

  • Hooked On Electronics

    Billy Pollard makes music on his computer and still lives with his mom, but don't hold that against him. As knifehandchop, the 21-year-old Torontonian is shaking dance floors out of four-on-the-floor complacency and using his plunderphonic speedcore style to expose the frailties Full story

  • Non Phixion's Guide To Good Reads

    Not a lot of people know this, but Non Phixion actually got their name from their prominence in the literary world. Each member of the group is an emeritus scholar. Full story

  • Our Lord Jesus Christ

    Remember the first time you: French-kissed, rode a roller coaster, successfully shoplifted, went to a (good) punk show, held a puppy, fucked, got drunk, fell in love, realized you're gonna die, saw a rainbow. Full story

  • This Is Disco Punk

    When James Murphy and his friends started a record label they didn't know they would be changing the course of music forever. Full story

  • Beats And Rhymes

    How come people still don't give Eazy-E his deserved props? Full story

  • Drive-in And Cryin'

    Even though they were a nerdy, teetotal emo rock band, the breakup of At The Drive-In was messier than an X-treme Bukake DVD. Full story

  • Electric Independence

    When I think about the first time I was really exposed to electronic music, I was too young to be into shit like the sample-a-delic space age pop of Jean Jacques Perrey, or the twisted genius of inventor Raymond Scott. Full story

  • Oi! Respect! Aiii!

    Based mostly in South and East London and populated by kids from rough council estates, today's UK garage scene still thrives through underground pirate radio. Full story