Our definitive list returns! Featuring chart-topping albums, some returning veterans, and a few surprise upstarts. Join us as we count down the best albums of the year.

After not playing together for 21 years, Spinner reports that Mick Jones (of The Clash) and the original lineup of Big Audio Dynamite are reuniting [...]

Certain individual musicians seem to embody the true spirit of the music they play. By any definition, Mike Watt fits that bill. From his early [...]

Amongst the commercialized Lollapalooza and the inflated Coachella, we need smaller, secluded festivals to keep us all grounded. Fun Fun Fun Fest gives Austin a more intimate, personalized, and risk-taking lineup in counterpart of Austin City Limits, featuring some of pop culture’s most surreal un-conventionalists like Yankovic, Gwar, and Suicidal Tendencies.

At this point, Teenage Fanclub must feel pretty comfortable seeming out of place and sounding outside of time, though never out of tune. They’ve been [...]

The 2010 Sasquatch Music Festival is now in the bag, and now that the last notes of Ween’s epic closing set have floated back into the ether, I am here to fill you in. The weekend, which took place at The Gorge Ampitheatre in George, Washington, in was chock full of good, bad, and some truly ugly moments.

Presenting the new and improved Verbicide Select Mixtape Volume 5! Fourteen delicious tracks (and one bonus track) fortified with vitamins, minerals, essential polypeptides, and 100% [...]

After listing his musical contributions since 2003, it’s not hard to understand why the producer/musician known as Danger Mouse is like King Midas.  He’s mixed [...]

Pop-punk, especially the girly-man Warped Tour brand, has been notoriously maligned by upper-tier pop analysts ever since the immediate, synapse-busting pleasures of Blink-182 wore off. [...]