Michael Gallucci

Funplex, the B-52's' first album in sixteen years, pumps up the volume, cranks the guitars, and rocks harder than anything the veteran group has done since its 1979 debut. There's nothing here as sweet or as catchy as "Roam" or "Love Shack," both of which made these unlikely new-wave rejects...

Kid Rock is a whore for the spotlight. He admits as much. But sometimes it shines on him when he's not even looking for it. For instance, a 1999 videotape in which Rock and Creed's Scott Stapp receive backstage blow jobs was leaked online recently. "Is anybody surprised that's going...

It's not surprising that Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy recently completed rehab for painkiller addiction; the man who summoned A Ghost Is Born is clearly haunted. After ambitious stabs at a history-of-rock concept album and a summery pop record culminated in 2002's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot -- a post-9/11 rumination on the...

Gwen Stefani was everywhere this year -- or at least it seemed that way. Moby's wan "South Side" became a much better song after the No Doubt singer's spunky appearance sparked the remix, and her cred-defining cameo on Eve's "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" made for one super girl-power single...