Our Favorite Musical Simpsons Cameos

The Ramones, 50 Cent, Metallica and 16 more...  read more

Living Colour, Manu Chao, Nas & Damian Marley to Play Cypress Hill's SmokeOut Festival

To miss this festival, you’d have to be insane in the membrane. (See what we did there?)...  read more

Back To Middle School: My 20 Favorite Rap Songs Circa 1991

I graduated from elementary school in June of 1990. Almost immediately after, my Dad—who worked for Digital Computers—switched from manufacturing to sales, and my family moved from Marlboro, Mass., to Alpharetta, Ga. I'd already gotten into a little bit of rap music while I was still in New England, listening to more poppy stuff like DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, Tone Loc, Young MC, LL Cool J, and even a little Digital Underground. But when I got to Georgia and started at Taylor Road Middle School (which I attended from August 1990 to June 1993), I met some new...  read more

Eight Songs to Soundtrack this Morning's Michael Phelps Interview on NBC's Today

At 7 a.m. this morning, NBC's Today will run Matt Lauer's exclusive interview with twentysomething Olympic swimmer and multiple gold medalist Michael Phelps, during which Phelps will hilariously pretend to apologize for smoking a bong at a party (or at least for being stoned enough to get photographed smoking a bong at a party). But while he's being all penitent and fielding the hard questions from Lauer about his "bad mistake" so he can re-score that Wheaties contract, this is the music that'll likely be playing in Phelps' head—and on my home stereo system, as I provide my own personal soundtrack to...  read more