Minor Threat (Musical Group)

No Fog Machine Necessary: Devin the Dude at the Varsity

Critics Picks: KRS-ONE and more

Second Life

Local man brings you the Howard Jones revival you never knew you wanted

This Is for the Alkies!

MC/VL and Scream Party uncover connection between C₂H₆0 and rocking the party. Also: Dan Wilson sings a ballad

The Menstrual Tramps: No Hesitation, No Defeat

MC/VL and Scream Party uncover connection between C₂H₆0 and rocking the party. Also: Dan Wilson sings a ballad

Talk Hardcore to Me

Doc-making punks discuss their decline of Midwestern civ

Strike Anywhere: Dead FM

Doc-making punks discuss their decline of Midwestern civ

Ten Thousand Bullets

D.C. lifer George Pelecanos writes about murder, drug feuds, riots, dog-fighting—and also a little violence

Audio Rorschach

Askeleton's Knol Tate comments on the soundtrack to his life

It's good to see you back in a bar band, baby

Askeleton's Knol Tate comments on the soundtrack to his life

Sweet Sixteen

Beautiful (mostly) and all yours, our sneek peek at the 6th Annual 'Sound Unseen'

Doomsday!

From the garbage house to the club with P.O.S. and his Doomtree crew

Digging Deeper

Excavating hip hop's history with the Roots

This is Hardcore

It made less history than '77 punk. It sold fewer records than Nirvana. But the suburban rebellion of Eighties America found its own potent way to say no.

Valley B-Boys

L.A.'s Styles of Beyond make the suburbs safe for hip hop

Love the Sin, Hate the Sinner

Romantic martyrs Joan of Arc sing post-rock hymns to doomed monogamy

Bring in the Noise

From Wrong's free-improv chaos to Savage Aural Hotbed's circle-saw precision, a disparate local noise scene maps the sound of modern anxiety

Gang of Four

Rock the basement and pour beer on your ass with pop-punk heroes Dillinger Four

Trendspotting

How a Minneapolis consulting trio discovered the "iconogasm," and other tales from the trendspotting business.

Who Are These Girls & Guys?

That's a bigger question than usual in our 1996 new music poll.