When guitarist Dean DeLeo reflects on the time surrounding the release of Stone Temple Pilots mega-selling 1992 debut, Core, the thing that strikes him is a constant flow of creativity and the sense of togetherness he felt with his bandmates at the time. “We were all really shoulder to shoulder…

Stone Temple Pilots have raided their vaults for a new 25th-anniversary box-set reissue of their debut album, Core. One of the highlights is “Only Dying,” a moody song the band demoed early in their career but never officially released. The band had considered making the track its contribution to the…

There’s a scene in Hello Hello Hello — a documentary about the making of Lee Ranaldo’s new LP, Electric Trim — that shows him playing an electric guitar with a violin bow as it hangs from a ceiling, droning strange, amorphous feedback. It’s an extension of a technique that dates…

For nearly five decades now, Ozzy Osbourne has cultivated one of the most singular careers in music. He helped lay the foundation for heavy metal with Black Sabbath; he ushered in a new, more energetic sound for the genre on his early solo albums with the late Randy Rhoads; he…

David Gilmour is reclining on a greenroom couch inside a large cineplex in London’s West End. He looks relaxed in a blue blazer and sneakers, his brown flight bag tossed in a corner, but tonight he has much to be excited about. In a few hours, the movie theater will…

At their peak, Big Black were some of the nastiest noisemakers in rock. Their sound was an industrial-strength miasma of piercing, static-like guitar (played with metal picks), drum-machine battery and frontman Steve Albini’s unapologetically hateful and acrimonious lyrics about the worst aspects of humanity. …

When Mike Judge began work on Tales From the Tour Bus, a new country-music docuseries for Cinemax that premieres on September 22nd, he did so with a mission. “I like converting people who don’t like country into going, ‘OK, maybe this is OK,’” he says. …

In 2014, Annie Clark’s career could not have been going better. After years of carving out her place as a cult hero, the singer-guitarist — who records as St. Vincent — found a surprising level of success with her fourth LP, St. Vincent, which reached Number 12 on the album…

In 2012, when Judd Apatow used the Avett Brothers’ buoyant, love-drunk ballad “Live and Die” in his coming-of-middle-age comedy This Is 40, it was a choice that reflected a passion for the band’s heartfelt folk pop. “Their music is about reaching out and trying to connect with other people, as…