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The Vans Warped Tour has established itself as a day-long summer tradition for fans of pop punk, emo, screamo and metal. Having also incorporated hip-hop, electro, Americana and other genres into its already diverse lineup, the Warped Tour offers something for just about any type of music fan willing to spend a scorching summer day on a blacktop under the oppressive sun.… [ Read more ...

Eluveitie: “Anybody up for a game of Settlers of Catan?” The greatest thing about heavy metal is that you can do anything with it. There are as many sub-genres as there are bands, and leading the current horde of folk-metal heathens is Switzerland’s Eluveitie (pronounced “el-VEY-tee”).

Despite the hundreds (if not thousands) of subgenres within metal, virtually all of them stand up and give a tip of the hat to what is known as "The Big Four": Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. Genres and styles may come and go but the Big Four are forever.

We won't bore you with the pop, RB, rap and other Grammy winners and get right to rock which actually outsells all of the genres that the out of touch academy (and TV programmers) seem to focus on.

Let’s talk about soul in music. If we keep in place the dividing lines that preconceptions and tradition tend to place between artists and genres circumscribed, by some authority, never to touch, we equate soul with Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye and the like (see also the perceived necessity of gospel as a source of inspiration, not with sad-eyed Englishmen adrift in the wake of the punk era. Since many people often claim that Ian Curtis is trying to make his voice sound lower than it actually