When we think about Halloween and art, we sort of automatically think of film. And why not. We have a decades-long library of movies designed to scare the pants off us. But there are some bands out there working the shadows with their music, as well. While it’s unfair to dismiss so many talented artists as Halloween acts – because talented and unconventional is cool 24/7/365 – it’s also true that during this week the veil between the mundane and arcane grows thin.So, to help you prepare your pla

Results: Top-seeded U2 looked poised to be our highest-ranked upset victim yet as of last night, but then put on a strong finishing kick to win one of the strongest pods we’ve seen yet. The numbers: #1 U2 56% ; #6 Queen 37%; #12 Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne 8%. U2 advances to the Sweet 16. Our search for the greatest band of all time now moves to the Hollywood Bowl region and an artist who walked away from the music that had made him one of the biggest names in the world to follow his own curi

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Heavy metal is funny, isn’t it? All those forty-something year old blokes with their leather pants and their long hair, wailing to the sound of twenty minute guitar solos followed by another twenty minutes of break-neck drums. To the average Joe, the very nature of the culture of metal is something to be mocked, a reliable source for parody. The likes of Spinal Tap and Metalocalypse base their entire premise on this notion. They exist solely to poke fun at the genre, and its surrounding ideologi

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