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It's become a badge of honor for athletes, rockers, authors, astronauts, actors, politicians, and pop culture icons to get The Simpsons treatment. And on October…

British singer-songwriter Charli XCX is a different sort of pop princess. She's independent and infectious as hell, but she's also quirky, insightful, a major hit-writer who proudly keeps…

There is a lot of loose talk about the proverbial "algorithm" these days, and you can thank Netflix for much of it. In…

Perhaps it goes without saying, but the most culturally significant movie of the 2010s is The Avengers. There were many decades of superhero movies before…

Tool fans are a notoriously patient lot, if not by nature, by necessity. After all, the tenebrous progressive metal maestros aren’t…

Since Ty Dolla $ign first broke out in 2010, as the hook singer on fellow Cali artist YG's "Toot It and Boot It," he’s been a…

1999 essentially marked the end of the alternative dream floated by punk bands in the '80s, sold by record companies in the '90s, and eventually…

Across the country this Independence Day break, families and Tinder connections on third dates will flock to theaters to see Danny Boyle’s Yesterday,…

Chris Cornell had one of rock's most formidable voices while also being a prolific songwriter, leading artists from various genres to cover his work.

This article was originally published in SPIN on November 25, 2013. Way back in the mid-1980s, when the disco gods appeared over the…

Years before Bruce Springsteen delivered Western Stars in June 2019, rumors circulated that the Boss was working on a record that would swap rock’n’roll for…

Here are the 30 best disco songs that shaped the sound in the YouTube era. Don't stop 'til you get enough.

No one captured the sound of nu metal's malaise and primordial damage as adeptly and disturbingly as Korn.

In the late 1970s and 1980s, Elton John released inconsistent albums, with a few great songs on each of them, annually or biannually. Like the…

Can a rock concert change the world? Yes. For the better? Not necessarily.