The Used headline pro-LGBT tour, join "It Gets Better"
The Used, a popular rock/screamo band from Utah, are calling attention to a problem that plagues their state and many others: discrimination against gays and lesbians.
“Sorry to Bother You”: 2012’s top 10 albums
During the annual consumer orgy I call Capitalistmas, critics are assigned the task of rating the cultural product of the closing calendar year.
Metal vocalist criticizes insensitivity toward Conn. shooting
The school shooting has cut like a knife through the metal community, which itself has experienced its own fair share of tragedy.
Jazz great Dave Brubeck dies at 91
Brubeck was one of the most active and popular musicians in both the jazz and classical worlds.
Environment, unions, bluegrass, and metal: Panopticon’s “Kentucky”
Kentucky covers corporate greed, union busting, environmental abuse, and the bonds of workers and family - and those are just the main themes.
Radical ecology and the emergence of green metal
"It is shocking to me that one could be seriously interested in black metal and not be deeply committed to radical ecology," says Wolves in the Throne Room's Aaron Weaver.
Environ-Metal: Where green is the new black
Today, new and aggressive underground genres are re-connecting with environmental activism, and metal - and its most abrasive subgenres - is no exception.
Metal musicians talk community, politics, LGBT equality
With the critical 2012 presidential election coming up, metal music is getting political.
