At the beginning of the pandemic, I became mildly obsessed with a video of Limp Bizkit playing a Moscow venue in February 2020. I wasn’t drawn to the performance so much as to the sight of front man Fred Durst, who’d been an emblem of white male millennials’ bottomless teenage angst at the turn of […]
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Incubus hated nu-metal before hating nu-metal was cool
Nu-metal is enjoying a rosy reappraisal in the media, but Incubus cut their ties to the much-maligned subgenre even before its early-2000s fall from grace.
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In its second year Chicago Open Air shows it’s got the heavy-rock market cornered
You should always take lists with a grain of salt, but when Rolling Stone tackles one focused on genre, it’s typically as engaging and thoughtful an overview of a sound as you’re likely to get from an outlet serving both mainstream and niche tastes. (Full disclosure: I’ve helped write one such Rolling Stone list.) The […]
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Bear rapper Big Dipper goes Commando in his new nu-metal band
Chicago native Big Dipper is part of a new underground queer supergroup that’s twisting nu metal into bizarre new shapes.
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Korn keeps the nu-metal dream of the 90s alive
Since nu-metal fizzled out in the early aughts it’s generally been treated with the kind of derision found in VH1 specials eviscerating bygone pop-culture ephemera. But “What were we thinking?” one-liners are more fitting for the oversize JNCO jeans of those years than the music that defined them, and while it’s getting harder and harder […]
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Gossip Wolf: Lollapalooza forecast
Lollapalooza predictions, Locrian’s big deal, and Ben Clarke’s new Quarter Mile Thunder