When Public Enemy kindly asked us in 1988 that we not believe “the hype,” it was hard not to. With “It’ll Take a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back,” they had perfected an art form (hip-hop) and taken ...

It's become common to write off the new New York underground-rock scene as prematurely discharged, doomed by its derivative origins to blaze brightly and burn out quickly. But while the parade of ...

On a page of production notes that would show up in his posthumously published "Journals," Nirvana's Kurt Cobain scrawled a minor command that doubled as a sort of manifesto: "On all drums, get rid of ...

In 2003, writer Eric Ducker got to know The Rapture for this story for The FADER's 15th issue—the New York band's first ever cover. It’s a Friday night in early January in New York’s Alphabet City and ...

When Mattie Safer, bassist for the Rapture, answered the phone, he’d just arrived at the Motown Museum in Detroit. He seemed a little preoccupied, and rightly so; as he puts it, everyone is a fan of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. “They’re so dorky,” a young woman was overheard saying early in the ...

The Rapture's record Echoes comes out today on Strummer/DFA. You can listen to the record in its entirety in either Windows Media or Real Player. The band is playing the sold out Strummer Records CMJ ...

Calling punk an attitude has become something of an MTV-generation cliché. Usually it’s offered up as a post-mortem tribute to a musician’s rebelliousness and unvarnished risk-taking musical ...