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Forever Strong: Foo Fighters

Few bands stay around long enough to produce as much consistently good work as the Foo Fighters; fewer still, as is to be reasonably expected, are lead by a front-man with as much experience / drive / musical talent as Dave Grohl.

Listing Grohl’s musical abilities would be a thoroughly pointless exercise. Listing his lack of musical abilities would also be tedious: the guy can play pretty much anything he puts his mind to, and has done so sporadically More

Fugazi: Need To Know

If you took apart and re-assembled everything Ian Mackaye—lead singer of legendary Washington D.C. hardcore bands Minor Threat, Fugazi and Embrace—had ever done under a different band name with another lead singer, something which would take you a very, very long time, that version of Ian Mackaye might be all the makings of a house-hold Indy-rock hero; but Fugazi, the main-stay of Mackaye’s illustrious career, were anything but a house-hold name, even though they commanded a generation of More

LCD: Best Kind Of System!

LCD Sound-System should not work. That’s it, really. They cram tens of instruments into every track, let tracks wander and stumble around for minutes on end as if drunk out of their blissfull little minds, and then suddenly stop playing completely without warning, breaking into a new and odd beat, totally different from the last, but equally bizarre. But they do work. Don’t ask how. Not being able to work out how they do it is one of the beautiful More