Heavy metal

John Darnielle has been compared to the greatest lyricists in pop music history. But his biggest influence wasn’t the American songbook, it was heavy metal.

What has six arms, dense distortion, double-bass drumming, and a combined age of 41? The metal band Unlocking the Truth, who made their radio debut on Studio 360.

Lead singer Nina Osegueda inspires A Sound of Thunder to record a version of the region’s anthem.

When Dan Messé was forming a band in Brooklyn, in 1999, the New York City borough had yet to become an epicenter of hipster rock. Their origins are quaintly analog: Messé placed an ad in the newspaper seeking a lead singer, and Sally Ellyson gave him a cassette tape on which she had recorded a […]

Tom Spicer had a long dream of meeting Lars and his siblings set out to make that dream come true and made a documentary about it.