On Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards, Michael Jackson's hologram performed "Slave to the Rhythm," a track off "Xscape," Jackson's posthumous new album. Vulture called it "uncomfortable." Stereogum wrote that the scene was "an all-around creepy, cynical,...

"I was angry, cynical, and had this deep sadness like an anchor dragging everywhere I go," says singer    

Prog metal legends Cynic have dropped a new lyric video.

The last Pearl Jam internet “countdown” ended with the announcement of a fall tour. It was followed immediately by the start of a new Pearl Jam internet countdown, which was goosed along by teasing updates on Twitter. I can’t tell you how dispiriting I find these things to be — they’re a cynical ...

Everything old is new again: a glance at some leading indie blogs might have you wondering if you’d suddenly time-warped back to some utopian alternative rock version of the ’80s, with names like the Replacements and My Bloody Valentine sharing headline space with Kanye West and Daft Punk. It’s easy to cynically view these ‘reuni...