Nearly every morning, California filmmaker Laura Bialis and the rest of Sderot’s residents wake to a female voice chanting, “Tzeva adom.” The words echo through the streets as the inhabitants of the small Israeli town hustle to bomb shelters and crouch in darkness until the last reverberations of the inevitable explosions dissipate. Recently, soldiers passed...

Jerry Heller is the business mastermind behind the second great paradigm shift in modern pop music. In 1967, it was the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band that defined the rock music era. In 1988, Jerry Heller’s N.W.A. ushered in the age of gangsta rap. Jerry is responsible for bringing Elton John, Pink...

When DEVO appeared on ’80s sitcom, Square Pegs (which starred Sarah Jessica Parker), they whipped everyone—from the censors to the actresses—into a frenzy. On the episode, the band headlines a “New Wave Bat Mitzvah.” Tame stuff, but behind the scenes—safe from the gaze of its teeny-boppin’ following—it was pretty wild. “The girls were out of...

We Are the Fury’s percussionist Stephan Lublin quit touring with the band to work with a new kind of drumstick; he now attends culinary school in Paris and blogs at MySpace.com/TheFoodComa. Here’s one of his favorite recipes: Warm Lobster Salad Ingredients: 1 Live lobster (about 1 1/2 lbs.) 2 tbsp. Butter 1 Diced medium onion...

On the surface, and even at its core, the latest videogame from 50 Cent is nothing short of a self-serving boner jam of big guns, fast cars and masculinity at its most moronic—and that’s exactly why you should get your paws on it ASAP. 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand allows gamers to step into...

Seth Pitman, Wild Light’s keyboardist and backup vocalist, tells me the story of the highly noticeable Star of David dangling around his neck. “An Israeli soldier gave me the necklace, and I’ve worn it pretty much every day since then.” The accessory means a great deal to Pitman, he explains, because it was acquired in...

As the scruffy artists file into their lab for design class at Brooklyn multi-arts space, 3rd Ward, each lets out a small, discernable gasp. For there on the room’s sole couch lounges Saturday Night Live cast member Andy Samberg, flanked by writers Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer—the comic trio known as The Lonely Island (TLI)....

They dream of their big break, cranking out lyrics and licks, lusting after the limelight. They're your typical rock band—only racist.

Russell Jones (a.k.a. ODB) got into a lot of trouble when he was alive. Now, nearly five years after his death, his biographer finds herself caught up in a web of legal woes.

Join us inside the creative spaces of six of our favorite emerging bands.

A rock journalist catches up with KISS and sees them without their makeup—in more ways than one.

Rush bassist/lead singer Geddy Lee is a rock icon. He is also Gary Lee Weinrib, born in Willowdale, Toronto, to Holocaust survivors Mary and Morris Weinrib. Perhaps this provides a clue as to why so many confused suburban teenage boys—myself included—spent hours in their respective dimly lit basements air-guitaring along to Rush—because Lee himself was...