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Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit performing in July 2021 at Festival of the Lakes in Hammond, Indiana.
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How do you explain Limp Bizkit to the world?

by Leor Galil July 21, 2021August 18, 2021

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

by Leor Galil September 11, 2018August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inMusic

In its second year Chicago Open Air shows it’s got the heavy-rock market cornered

by Leor Galil July 6, 2017August 18, 2021

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 […]

Posted inBlogs

Bear rapper Big Dipper goes Commando in his new nu-metal band

by Leor Galil February 24, 2016August 18, 2021

Chicago native Big Dipper is part of a new underground queer supergroup that’s twisting nu metal into bizarre new shapes.

Posted inMusic

Korn keeps the nu-metal dream of the 90s alive

by Leor Galil September 9, 2015August 18, 2021

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 […]

Will the Shins play Lollapalooza?
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Gossip Wolf: Lollapalooza forecast

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil March 28, 2012August 19, 2021

Lollapalooza predictions, Locrian’s big deal, and Ben Clarke’s new Quarter Mile Thunder

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