Mikael Wood

Provided that CBS isn't planning a Two and a Half Men marathon, you won't find a dumber way to spend your Tuesday night than on the Denver stop of LMFAO's Party Rock Tour. But you might not find a more enjoyable way, either: On its recent major-label debut, these club-rap...

On "Who You'd Be Today," a slo-mo ballad from his new album, Kenny Chesney wonders what life would have dealt a handful of dead people if they hadn't died. "It ain't fair, you died too young," he sings in weepy close harmony, "like a story that had just begun." Penned...

Kathleen Hanna formed Bikini Kill, the most visible product of the early-'90s riot-grrrl movement, to disrupt the orthodoxy, juicing go-go garage rock with sarcastic drill-team choruses and enough teen spirit to inspire a nation of fanzine-writing followers. After Bikini Kill ran its course -- just as the potency of the...

Jonny Greenwood would prefer not to be here; this I know. Talking on an intercontinental phone call to yet another journalist about how great Radiohead, in which he plays guitar, is and how important Amnesiac, the band's new record, is in the face of the cultural poverty that's replaced the...