Web exclusive: Check out our gallery of Korn tattoos here. Upload yours. Jonathan Davis is the last guy in America you’d expect to be well adjusted. Think about it: The guy’s whole career has been built on being a fuck-up. For the last 15 years, Davis has battled and exploited his inner demons as the lead singer of Korn, gaining legions of fans that empathize with his tortured childhood and share his dark fascinations. Born with severe, nearly life-threatening asthma, Davis was abused by a family friend as a boy, ostracized and ridiculed by his classmates as a teen, and became a drug addict and a rock star in his ...
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Jón “Jónsi” Þór Birgisson gained fame as the frontman for Icelandic post-rock act Sigur Rós, but his solo release sees him transposing his gift for orchestral explosions into a pop-friendly context (mostly because he’s singing in English). Jónsi’s voice is so distinctive that the songs sound similar to Sigur Rós’s in many ways, but sweetly syncopated tracks like “Boy Lilikoi” manage to evoke Peter Gabriel rather than Mogwai, and melancholy meditations like “Kolniður” display a vulnerability that’s sometimes obscured by the grandiosity of his full-time act. The final result? An album that shows a new side to Jónsi without abandoning the sonic subtleties that have endeared him to countless fans all over the world.
The new host of MTV’s Headbangers Ball, José Mangin, got his first tat- too at 16 (Pantera’s famous Cowboys From Hell logo) and was hooked. But it was his encounter with the band’s late, great guitarist, Dimebag Darrell, that got him addicted. “I walked up to him and said, ‘Scarred for life, man,’ and he totally tripped out! Dime gave me a Coors silver bullet—I still have the can!—a black-tooth grin, and some hits off a killer bomber he had going around. I was never the same since.” Mangin was raised on “a healthy diet of tacos and metal.” He’s quick to profess his love for both, as well as ...
Jewelry designer Jules Kim doesn’t like to be ripped off, so the fact that her studio is in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown, the home of knockoffs, is a bit ironic. Not long after launching her high-end jewelry line Bijules in 2004 and seeing her work worn by everyone Gwen Stefani to Rihanna, Kim started a weaponry series. Now she says she’s seeing shrunken versions of her “fucking glocks everywhere!” In response, she came up with a strategy: “I follow a strict schedule to get my stuff out before anyone can bite my style.” As a nod to those annoying copycats, Kim created a sub-line called Bitejules. This ...
She’s a young, fiery, sexy hybrid of Joan Jett and Juliette Lewis who says that she wants to model her career “after Janis Joplin, except without the drug addiction and dying...
"Landlord's a cheap bastard," says singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle, gesturing toward the dripping faucet in his kitchen. It's par for the course here in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. And given the arctic conditions outside, things could be worse: A sheet of paper taped above the mailboxes in Earle's building's entryway announces "1/9 BOILER BROKEN!!!" Fortunately, today is not January 9. Amazon.com Widgets "I've lived in neighborhoods like this all my life," Earle says. He's seen a lot in his 27 years, as we're about to find out. Crown Heights is a piece of cake. We'll get it out of the way now: Justin Townes Earle is the son of country maverick ...
Heidi Minx's interview with comedian and founder of Funny for Fido, Justin Silver.
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