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COCKED & LOADED

Auto-Tune and soda commercials killed hip-hop. Now La Coka Nostra, a new cartel featuring five familiar faces, have set out to cook up what hip-hop has been missing.

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COCO AND BREEZY

Coco and Breezy

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COHEED AND CAMBRIA

Drawing from frontman Claudio Sanchez’s sci-fi comic book series, COHEED AND CAMBRIA jams planet rock.

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COLD WAR KIDS

The Cold War Kids are growing up yet not growing old. The Long Beach–based soul-punk outfit began carefree and fun, but now...

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COLUMUS, OHIO

Every 60 seconds a tattoo convention takes place somewhere around the world, and while there are only so many times you can watch people in strategically hand-cut outfits discuss the meaning behind their fairy flash and tragic tribals, the Hell City show stands out as one of the mustattend events among the tattoorati.

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CONVERGE

When Jacob Bannon was 13, he dreamed of screaming. "When a lot of kids were thniking about baseball cards and becoming astronauts, I was immersing myself in a culture that I...

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CONVERGE
AXE TO FALL [EPITAPH]

Writers hate reviewing a new Converge album. The kings of underground hardcore metal deliver so consistently that it becomes an exercise in finding new ways to say, “They still shred.” Enter Axe to Fall, the most straightforward Converge album yet. It’s apparent from the opening blast of “Dark Horse,” a galloping shot of guitars and throat-searing screams, that Converge are coming in lean and mean. “Cutter” stops and starts around a flurry of leads, while the guitar opening of “Worms Will Feed” gets flattened by hammering drums. They halt the assault for “Cruel Bloom,” a creepy piano ballad, and in the doom-metal crawl of “Wretched World.” They still shred. There, we said it!

COREY MILLER

Six Feet Under’s master of black and gray discusses his journey from tattooing with a guitar string and a fish-tank pump motor to being one of the most recognizable tattoo artists on the planet. He also dishes on why he left High Voltage for American Electric on LA Ink.

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