Best known for his work in collaboration with director Tim Burton composer Danny Elfman created one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary film music bringing his talents to a dark fantasy world populated by superheroes monsters and f…

Los Angeles DJs Justin Warfield and Adam Adam 12 Bravin formed the moody Joy Division-inspired She Wants Revenge in 2003 A fortuitous combination of word of mouth industry connections and airplay on Sirius Satellite Radio and West Coast airwave giant…

A discovery of pop-punk superstars Fall Out Boy, the Las Vegas emo band Panic! At the Disco (named for a Smiths song), stormed the charts in 2005 while its members were barely old enough to vote. Offering a highly danceable take on the emo formula of…

The mercurial term "emo" has meant many different things since its first appearance in the mid-1980s hardcore punk underground. By the mid 2000s, the term was best exemplified by the band Fall Out Boy. Playing an accessible brand of melodic rock mark…

New Jersey hardcore band My Chemical Romance achieved a surprising degree of success with their Goth-tinged, woe-is-me take on punk. Labeled everything from emo and pop-punk to post-hardcore and screamo, My Chemical Romance are one of several bands f…

Gnarls Barkley is the remarkable collaboration between DJ/producer/mash-up king Danger Mouse and psychedelic soul crooner/MC Cee-Lo, of the Atlanta hip-hop group Goodie Mob. Both refreshingly outre and delightfully accessible in the manner of Outkast…