Finkin' Ain't Easy

Before there was Snoop Dogg, the streetwise but adorably named

Incubus, 'A Crow Left of the Murder...' (Epic)

Cali-rock dudes go from blissed to pissed.

One of the few alt-rock bands to break out back when rap-rock rude boys ran things, Brandon Boyd and Incubus looked like dolphin-hugging hippies next to their contemporaries.

Absolutely Fabulous

It’s Saturday afternoon in London, and a scrum of 250 members

Q: Are we not metal? A: We are Probot!

It is a bright, crisp Sunday in Los Angeles, and Dave Grohl is

JC Chasez, 'Schizophrenic' (Jive)

It ain't easy bein' Chasez.

After the (sugar) crash of the boy-band market, ’NSync’s Justin Timberlake quickly refashioned himself as a B-boy-talkin’, body-rockin’ friend of the fabulous, to great success. But whither JC Chasez, the Milhouse to Timberlake’s Bart?

Cee-Lo, 'Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine' (Arista)

Dirty South preacher man tries to expand congregation.

The wages of sin can make for a decent salary, and choirboy-turned-microphone fiend Thomas “Cee-Lo” Callaway knows this well. “You get rich talking shit / So why shouldn’t I?” he asks near the end of this second solo trip--before adding: “I’m just playing / But that couldn’t go without saying.”

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