In Flames singer Anders Friden skipped school to buy Metallica's ...And Justice For All - but he fears the excitement of similar experiences has been lost in the digital age

Heavy metal is many things to many people. Adolescent power fantasies, calculated noise, fetishized religious subversion, a cry for social justice … you name it. For me it’s an unattainable ideal, and one I chase endlessly: it’s the hunt for the Riff Absolute. Riffs are the bedrock of all rock genres, but the birth ...

In response to the Eric Garner verdict, Peter Gabriel penned an op-ed for Wired advocating for the criminal justice system to use technology in order to verify and legitimize video evidence, stating that he believes that the legal system should depend more heavily on impartial video evidence than they do on biased verbal accounts. “The...

Rapper discusses racial injustice in wake of US police brutality

In the wake of the recent wave of police killings, including the Staten Island choking death of the unarmed Eric Garner, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is at least publicly looking into the idea of changing a few criminal justice laws. To that end, he’s met with, among others, Jay Z, one of his most [...]