10 of the Most Ridiculous Rock-Star StuntsHilarious shenanigans — from the Rolling Stones’ fifteen-foot inflatable onstage penis to Dylan’s conversion to Christianity — have always been part of rock and roll.
Rockers Indulge Their Malevolent Inner CriticsThere’s nothing like a good, mean-spirited, convention-bucking story to get you past the Thursday-morning doldrums. A riveting recent piece in the U.K.’s Guardian Unlimited asked popular musicians (New Order’s Peter Hook, Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos, the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, and others) to pan classically revered albums from the annals of rock, which they did with evil aplomb.
