Gimme Shelter
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 Israe...
Jerry Heller
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 19...
Warm Lobster Salad
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 fa...
The Six-Year Itch
If he didn't have his latest album as hard evidence, the affable DJ, producer, composer, and remixer Sam Spiegel (a.k.a. Squeak E. Clean) might sound a bit delusional when he tells me how jam-packed with top ar...
Keel Over Beethoven
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 m...
The Professional
A rock journalist catches up with KISS and sees them without their makeup—in more ways than one.
Ol’ Dirty Lawsuit
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.
Celebrity Skins
They dream of their big break, cranking out lyrics and licks, lusting after the limelight. They're your typical rock band—only racist.
Chai Times with Sean Paul
The moment he rolls up to the joint—I mean, hotel suite—it's easy to see that 36-year-old Jamaican reggae and dancehall megastar Sean Paul has it all: brains, talent and plenty of green (backs, that is). Paul t...
Straight Outta Brooklyn
Join us inside the creative spaces of six of our favorite emerging bands.
