Idolator

Ah, nothing quite fills a slow-ass holiday Monday better than list gripery. At first, as I read this rundown of the 25 "Best Band Logos," all I could think was "they better remember the Misfits skull. They better remember the Misfits skull." Well, they did remember to include the Misfits skull (phew), while managing to hit most of the canonical choices when it comes to rock logos (Metallica, Van Halen, the Grateful Dead skull, the Stones lips, et cetera). But while you might pitch a kvetch about the obviousness or ordering—Phish ahead of Public Enemy's crosshairs? The Scissor Sisters ahead of almost everyone at No. 5??—can you really fault the folks at Spinner for forgetting a few of your own faves while sifting through forty years of pop music iconography? This is the Internet, after all, where counter-lists are plentiful unto pointlessness. That's why I cobbled together a list of five personal pop design highlights, any one of which could maybe, you know, be subbed in for H.I.M.'s "heartagram" or the backwards Korn "K." (Just sayin'.) More »

Hard to believe that Maggot Brain, Funkadelic's rock-pop-funk-whathaveyou classic, is 35 years old this year; even harder to believe we have not yet used that as an excuse to post two of the album's best tracks, "Can You Get To That" and "You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks." Really, there's no excuse not to be on your third copy of this by now: More »