Larry Norman died yesterday. Norman basically invented Christian rock. Yeah, there were some earlier stabs at the stuff, but Norman actually figured out the important part of pop culture is the "pop" part (you know the "one way" finger-pointing-upward symbol beloved of athletes who've just scored? Norman invented that!). His 1968 Capitol LP Upon This [...]

Annandale's Strangeland Records won't close its doors until March, but the metal-industrial shop will toast to its end with its last blowout show tomorrow, January 19. The ten-hour affair (2 p.m. to midnight) will feature thrash act Battlemaster (pictured), death metal guys Three Faces of Eve, plain metal dudes High Five for Suicide, and eight [...]

Karlheinz Stockhausen, an electronic music pioneer and one of the titans of 20th century classical music, died at home on Wednesday, December 5th.
You can hear some of the German composer's sounds here.
You can see him here.
And yours truly on Hymnen mit Orchester.

Everybody's favorite obnoxious gossip site says that Pimp C, the beatmaking, rabble-rousing half of UGK, died this morning in Hollywood. Here's our review of the Houston group's latest disc, Underground Kingz.