The 16 Best Stuttering Songs of All Time

Had David Bowie stuttered as a kid, he might have been too self-conscious to ever approach a microphone. Instead, he — and plenty of other artists — adopted the verbal tic in the recording studio, with hooky hit-making results. We ask two professionals to guide us through the supercatchy art of the speech impediment. More

The Best Bling Ever!

We pick the watershed moments in the history of bling, with some help from Reggie Ossé and Gabriel Tolliver, authors of Bling: The Hip-Hop Jewelry Book. More

Top Ten Motivational Anthems for the U.S. Olympic Team

The world has gathered in Beijing to engage in spirited physical feats that will thrill and delight. To our U.S. Olympic athletes, we recommend the following playlist to ensure that we totally kick everyone's ass and point menacingly at their battered corpses. More

Top 10 Songs Our Robot Masters Will Groove To

Tomorrow is bleak for humanity, as the excellent documentary Terminator 2: Judgment Day will attest. Carbon-based bipeds will offer only two things to our future techo-organic overlords — our bodies and our music. And it is the pulsing electronic music that is so very now that robot octopi will shake their nano-pimp dust-'bots off to while they drain humans ensconced in biomechanical cocoons of their precious energy. Grinding toward this inevitability, bionic evolution will cease at the iPod (O sweet perfection!), which will form the foundation of the future sentient techno-organic civilization. Mass energon cubes will be the currency shelled out for these 10 critical waveforms guaranteed to make our binary-reading, diode-stuffed, logic-loving mecha-masters groove. Please note: No "Mr. Roboto" references were used in the compilation of this important piece of Internet prophecy. More

The 10 Greatest Pop-Metal Albums of the '80s

Chuck Klosterman, author, journalist and superhero to a nation of music nerds demands: BANG YOUR HAIR! More

Greatest Song Ever: "The Boys Are Back In Town"

How the definitive bar-brawl anthem came roaring to life More

Station to Station: Madonna's Nonstop Erotic Cabaret

Madonna stays in the groove by pretending to be an anonymous disco girl. No, really. More

The 16 Best New Orleans Songs

Just in time to celebrate the French Quarter Festival, Jazz Fest and springtime in the sweet and sunny South, the following is a 16-song ode to the City That Care (and FEMA) Forgot. More

Weird Band Alert!

Screaming puppets, aristocratic rap saviors, and a stage-soiling Elvis impersonator. We salute some of the weirdest submissions to grace our inbox — the cream of the crap, if you will. More

2008 Rock & Roll User's Guide

From the biggest heavy metal band in the world to the High School Musical cast member you've seen naked: a guide to the most anticipated new music of '08. More

Readers’ Poll 2007

This year, you watched music’s biggest stars go to rehab, get busted for DUI and go pantylessly insane. Some of ’em even had time to make music. Take a look back at all that was brilliant and sordid in rock & roll with our annual readers’ survey. More

The 25 Best Albums of 2007

Two discoscuzz merchants, two hipster country acts, two actual country acts, two loopy geniuses who gave it away free—and 17 more reasons the album still isn’t dead. More