Top 10 Songs With the Same Titles as Great Novels

1. “1984” by David Bowie (book by George Orwell)

2. “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Metallica (book by Ernest Hemingway)

3. “The Right Stuff” by New Kids on the Block (book by Tom Wolfe)

Bob Odenkirk’s New Memoir: 20 Key Takeaways

Bob Odenkirk’s Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir

Thanks to his breakthrough role as Saul Goodman a.k.a Jimmy McGill in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, Bob Odenkirk finally got his due in mainstream culture starting in 2009. Landing the part was a game-changer for the actor/writer/director/sketch-comedy icon who had spent more than a decade toiling on dozens of projects that never saw the light of day.

What You Readin’ For?: Campfire OK On ‘A Brief History Of Time,’ ‘Illustrated Man’

It’s all geek to Campfire OK’s Mychael. For the second installment in the Bad Penny’s “What You Readin’ For?” series, the singer of the Seattle indie-pop band leafs through two books: a nonfiction classic about science and a classic work of science fiction.

What You Readin’ For?: Climber On ‘Moby Dick’

Climber frontman Michael Nelson just reached out to the Bad Penny to take part in our “What You Readin’ For” series, in which literature and music flirt. The vocalist/pianist/multi-instrumentalist submitted a series of deep thoughts on his latest read: Herman Melville classic “Moby Dick.”

Crossword Puzzle: James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’

Warning: You won’t find any music-related content in this post. But in observance of Bloomsday, let’s momentarily stray from convention.

3 Inches Of Blood’s Cam Pipes Geeks Out On Tolkien, ‘Dungeons & Dragons’

It’s Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Or, better put, “9.9.09.” Some 3 years, 3 months and 3 days ago, metalheads were having a collective kanipshin over 6.6.06, terrorizing their neighbors’ pets and carving satanic shit into their skin.

So how did the gritty falsetto belter behind 3 Inches of Blood bide his time that day? Scouting the Shire, perhaps. Or maybe slaying some dragons.

Welcome to the imaginarium of Dr. Pipes.

An Extremely Long Conversation About Extreme Metal With Albert Mudrain

There is horror cinema. And then there is splatter cinema.

There is drug use. And then there is drug addiction.

There is heavy metal. And then there is extreme metal.

‘Burning’ Questions For Brian Peterson: A Conversation About Hardcore Punk And Beyond

They say if you remember the ’60s, you weren’t really there. Well, the opposite can be said for straightedge punk in the ’90s: After all, if you were trooly into hardcore, you were cold sober the whole time.

Isis’ Oceanic: Mystery Revealed?

Almost eight years after Isis pulled back the curtain on what stands as their strongest release to date, Oceanic, debate over its lyrical content lingers like an ebbed wave on the shore.

David Grubbs: Wingdale Community Singers Will Be ‘Busy For Years To Come’

Let’s enumerate, shall we, the instances in which authors of note¹ have put down their pens and picked up instruments instead.