While early team-ups such as Aerosmith and Run DMC on Walk This Way and Anthrax and Public Enemy on Bring The Noise flexed the potential of rock and hip hop when combined, as the 90s progressed, rap ...

On August 18, 1998, two albums were released that would migrate two misunderstood genres from minor curiosities to major cultural forces. But nü-metal and rap-rock weren’t always critically derided, ...

The days are growing shorter, the leaves are dying, skies are gray. It’s time to get Twiztid. On Friday, the venerable Michigan-based horror rap-metal duo makes a grand return to the Webster Theater ...

That was the subject line of an e-mail we received this morning from a reader who did not include his name in the body of the e-mail and I will assume therefore does not wish to be identified. I don’t ...

Ice-T and Body Count are back. The band is debuting a flip of a classic Pink Floyd song with unlikely origins, and the rapper-actor is explaining how it happened. The frontman of the heavy metal-rap ...

Last Thursday, skate-prick rap collective Odd Future signed off Tumblr and appeared on national television. Sporting ski masks with inverted crosses scrawled on them, and bouncing across a ...

Florida is not like other places. Strange elements converge and mingle down there. Nonpoint is a metal band from Fort Lauderdale, just north of Miami. When people talk about rap metal, a genre that ...

Drake may be one of the most popular rappers in the world, but the musician recently confirmed that Pantera and Insane Clown Posse were among the groups he listened to growing up. The revelation came ...

On Sunday night, Machine Gun Kelly headlined his first punk festival. “Punk festival” is probably a reductive thing to call Riot Fest, which started out as, like, Alkaline Trio and the Lawrence Arms ...

Meet Ghostemane. He’s a white kid with dyed-gray hair and the word kybalion, which Google tells me is some kind of ancient hermetic philosophy, tattooed across his forehead. (It’s also the name of one ...

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix has an expansive musical vernacular that goes far beyond the black metal leanings of his brainchild Liturgy. He enjoys composer Igor Stravinsky (Hunt-Hendrix went through an ...

2013 was the year of Kayne's Yeezus, Chance the Rapper's Acid Rap, Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, and Beyoncé's surprise self-titled record. But the best-reviewed album of that year didn't come ...