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The Big Hurt: ICP take on magnets

Plus Slash loves Axl and Dre does Freddie
Would that I could simply post the entire lyric to “Miracles” by INSANE CLOWN POSSE and call it an article.
By DAVID THORPE | April 13, 2010

Excerpt: Evening’s Empire by Bill Flanagan

In this chapter, "The Drugs Don't Work," aging rock star Emerson Cutler and his manager, Jack Flynn, are seeking inspiration — and desperately trying to jumpstart his career.
By BILL FLANAGAN | February 05, 2010

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Britney Spears and Michael Jackson fight it out

Who's #1?
Cue up track six on the new Britney (Jive) and prepare yourself for the Technicolor disco flash-back of the year, swooning string section, chunky Nile Rodgers guitar riff, and all. The song's called "Anticipating," and it captures the most famous 19-year-old girl in the world at her guileless, sentimental best.
By SEAN RICHARDSON | June 30, 2009

The Big Hurt: Parse and labor

The week in unhelpful headlines
I think music-news headlines are now officially my favorite part of pop music.
By DAVID THORPE | June 15, 2009

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Girls gone wild

Making Friends and cultivating Strangers
Maybe it was a good thing after all that Jeremiah Freed packed up and moved to Los Angeles. Sure, the band broke up, but in the process bassist Matt Cosby met Pete Donovan and managed to drag him back here to Maine.
By SAM PFEIFLE | April 08, 2009

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The Big Hurt: Dr Pepper sickens Axl

Plus Creed threaten to exist again; Camp Freddy awful
Unless we act fast, the darkest chapter in American æsthetic history may soon be revisited.
By DAVID THORPE | December 12, 2008

Scott Weiland | “Happy” in Galoshes

Softdrive/New West (2008)
It might be one of the year’s worst albums, an underwritten, overarranged mess of factory-floor guitar fuzz, go-nowhere vocal melodies, limp electronic beats, and lyrical clunkers
By MIKAEL WOOD | November 24, 2008

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Rock and rote

Three decades in, AC/DC’s conservatism pays off
Three decades in, AC/DC’s conservatism pays off
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | November 10, 2008

CMJ in one day

The Gray Lady of indie music fests ain’t what she used to be
The Gray Lady of indie music fests ain’t what she used to be
By CHRIS FARAONE | November 30, 2008

The Big Hurt: Chinese Democracy at last!

Why you should consider not caring
Reports have surfaced that Chinese Democracy , the long-awaited album by former rock gods Guns N’ Roses, has been completed and delivered to Geffen.
By DAVID THORPE | April 22, 2008

The 100 unsexiest men in the world

Who would Scarlett least like to be with?
Welcome to the first installment of ThePhoenix.com's 100 Unsexiest Men in the World.
By BILL JENSEN & RYAN STEWART | March 27, 2008

Unauthorized!

Axl Rose, Albert Goldman, and the renegade art of rock biography
I think it may have been sometime in the 1970s that the term “unauthorized” became sort of cool.
By JAMES PARKER | May 26, 2009

Intro to Kill Your Idols: The Unauthorized Biography of Albert Goldman by James Parker

By JAMES PARKER | February 13, 2008

Midsummer muses

Smashing Pumpkins redux and Velvet Revolver
It’s been almost 20 years since Corgan first bared his barren soul to the world and not a whole lot has changed.
By MATT ASHARE | July 23, 2007

Appetite for destruction

Did the Virginia Tech shooter take his cues from a Guns N' Roses song?
Well before he gunned down 32 people at Virginia Tech last week, it appears Seung-Hui Cho was obsessed with Guns N' Roses.
By PAUL IORIO | April 20, 2007

The 100 unsexiest men 2007: 10-1

These guys couldn't turn on a radio
These guys couldn't turn on a radio
By | April 14, 2007

Rinocerose

Schizophonia | V2
Who would have expected, at this late date, to find a 1980s glam band with a feyish, Trent Reznor–influenced singer leading the action?
By MICHAEL FREEDBERG | August 01, 2006

Two by two

Twin Engines marries Vacationland and New York City
Twin Engines have four songs up on their MySpace page, and though guitarist Jimmy Walls cautions they’re just demos, you can get a good feel for the amount of sound and energy Walls and Rae can produce.
By SAM PFEIFLE | April 19, 2006