Metalsucks — When it comes to mixing rap and metal there were obviously bands that did it before Rage Against the Machine, but those bands shouldn’t be credited/blamed for fucking up metal as much as Rage Against the Machine did for the following reasons: They... more info

Pitchfork — German electro-punks Atari Teenage Riot had something of a zeitgeist moment in the mid-90s by blurring hardcore punk, jungle, noise, and bloodcurdling screaming, turning all that stuff into a hyperspeed mush that basically forced you (well, me) to st... more info

MTV.com News — Duo played second-ever live show Wednesday night.By Kelly Marino Travis Barker and DJ A-Trak perform in Los Angeles on Wednesday Photo: MTV News/ Kelly Marino LOS ANGELES — On Wednesday night, Travis Barker and DJ A-Trak played their sec... more info

ContactMusic — RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE star TOM MORELLO is returning to the IRON MAN film franchise - even though his terrorist character was killed off in the first movie.The rocker,... more info

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My Old Kentucky — Admit it. Black Ribbons is a record you never saw coming from Shooter Jennings, even if he did spend a portion of 2009 rabble rousing with Tom Morello on The Justice Tour II. But yet, here it is: Operation: Mindcrime meets Radio K.A.O.S. Twenty tra... more info

Guardian Music — Unsure of where your loyalties should lie when debating hot topics? Then why not let the Facebook majority make those difficult decisions for you?With warring groups set up by users to debate the relative merits of everything from Nick Griffin and a ... more info

Pitchfork — In 1995, a benefit album to raise funds to fight the allegedly wrongful imprisonment of convicted murderer Leonard Peltier was supposed to come out on Columbia. The record-- dubbed Exiled in the Land of the Free-- was to feature feature rare, live, a... more info

Pitchfork — Led by singer-songwriter Nate Grace, Austin's Pure Ecstasy make lo-fi tunes insulated by plenty of reverb. Their music is simple, warm, direct. In a track review of their best song to date, the woozy "Easy", Pitchfork's Joe Colly said it sounds like ... more info

Guardian Music — Calls to save 6 Music invoke the idea of 'new music'. But the phrase needs unpicking – making music discovery a central promise is a fraught businessOn the morning its future was thrown into public jeopardy, the digital radio station BBC 6 Mus... more info