For years, the DJ and producer Marea Stamper, who is White, has been performing and recording under the name the Black Madonna. The name is a reference to historic depictions of Mary and Jesus that have rendered both of them as Black, or as dark-skinned. Today, Stamper has announced that she's changed her stage name;…

Justin K. Broadrick is one of the great restless spirits in the history of heavy, aggressive music. With bands like Napalm Death and Godflesh, Broadrick spent the '80s and '90s inventing new forms and expanding genre boundaries. Since 2004, Broadrick has been releasing sad, blurry, personal music under the name Jesu. (Jesu is a shifting…

In 1994, the Jesus And Mary Chain got together with Mazzy Star singer Hope Sandoval to release the duet "Sometimes Always," the lead single from the band's Stoned And Dethroned album. It rules so hard. Sandoval and JAMC's Jim Reid play an ex-couple who might get back together and might not, and they trade off…

Next week, Stephin Merritt's Magnetic Fields will release the new project Quickies, the latest in a long line of records written around a particular idea. This time, we're dealing with a five-EP box set -- 28 new songs, each under three minutes long, most with pretty funny song titles and concepts. We've already posted the…

If you've come into contact with Papa Roach's "Last Resort" in the last decade or so, it's likely been in meme form. Pizzas, leashes, Reese's, Jesus -- all things that have been cut into pieces as the deathless chorus to the Cali rockers' hard-charging hit has, as with so much late-'90s and early-'00s pop cultural…