Future Islands' last album, The Far Field, came out a little over three years ago. In the interim, the band never strayed too far from view; last year, for example, Samuel T. Herring made his official full-length debut under his rap moniker Hemlock Ernst, and just a couple weeks ago bassist William Cashion released a…

Right-wing bros will always love Rage Against The Machine, despite the fact that they are a very, very left-wing band. For example, as The Detroit Metro Times reports, a Michigan man just went viral on Twitter for getting dunked on repeatedly after telling Rage guitarist Tom Morello to stay out of politics. "I…

In the early '70s, the Detroit native Susan Kay Quatro kicked off a hitmaking career as a tough glam-rocker. There were women who were rock stars before Suzi Quatro, but she was the first example of an archetype -- a sort of hard-rock superhero type -- that would become a defining force in the punk…

They Might Be Giants' breakout album Flood turned 30 last month, and to celebrate the anniversary, they're currently playing the LP in its entirety every night on tour -- with a few tweaks here and there. Last night in New Haven, for example, they performed the track "Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love" entirely backwards, sounding…

Beyond death metal's best-known albums lies a quantity of unsung classics. Here are 10 of the best examples of underground extremity