For a lot of our readers at IGN, it may come as a shock to hear that Nirvana's iconic album, Nevermind, is 20 years old. Another year and it will be able to mix alcohol in with its angst, which is never a good combination. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the most iconic grunge band's most iconic album, Universal Music will be releasing a brand new addition of the album to CD and DVD...

Jay-Z and Kanye West have announced that their much-anticipated collaboration, Watch The Throne, will be released exclusively on iTunes on Monday, August 8th, with physical copies and additional online retailer options available August 12th. The duo will join forces as the newly named group The...

Swedish indie pop outfit, Little Dragon continues their slow insertion into mainstream consciousness on their solid third album. With a unique blend of R&B, new wave, and electronic pop, the quartet separate themselves from the indie pop landscape in all the right ways. The clanging coke b...

German hardcore digital trio, Atari Teenage Riot returns with their first new album since 1999's 60 Second Wipe Out. The band continues its all-out assault on your eardrums with a vigorous blend of techno, industrial, and drum and bass elements, with the time away allowing their fear of the interne...

Singer Amy Winehouse has reportedly been found dead at her home in northern London. She was 27 (eerily, the same age as Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain when they died)...

This time in our set of six indie rock recommendations, we check out the latest from singer-songwriter Matt Nathanson, Midwestern rockers Maritime, and New York oddities The Felice Brothers. We also check out fresh debuts from YouTube sensations 2Cellos, genre-bending New York rapper Outasight, and...

YouTube sensation, Wax has released his second video from his untitled debut release for Def Jam Records. The new single, "Coins" uses a remixed sample from Luigi's Mansion, complete with appropriate coin sound effect. The video finds the rapper and, producer, EOM following a spinning fish-eye...

Miami beatsmith, DJ Khaled's latest album has a guest list that puts the roll call on a David Guetta album to shame. From hip-hop heavyweights Drake, Rick Ross, and Lil Wayne to R&B royalty Mary J. Blige, Cee Lo Green, and Ne-Yo, the combination of great talent, hot beats, and memorable hooks m...

Chicago's Madina Lake is set to unleash, their latest album, World War III on September 13th. The album concludes the trilogy the band began with 2007's From Them, Through Us, To You and continued on 2009's Attics To Eden. The albums are set in the fictional town of Madina Lake in the 1950s, in a ...

311's blend of reggae sway and rock swagger returns with their tenth studio album. As mellow as the vocals of "Trouble" get, looking to shake free of the bad boy lifestyle, the crunchy riffs keep it from becoming simply a chill out album. The slippery guitar noodling its way in and out of loyalty ...

Produced by Howard Benson (Daughtry, P.O.D.), 3 Doors Down do not change their sound on their fifth studio album so much as they amplify it. Benson cranks the guitars up a notch or two to give, front man, Brad Arnold's husky vocals a little more rock backing. The slight change works like a charm t...

Beastie Boys have unveiled the latest video from Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. The group enlisted Spike Jonze to direct the video for, reggae infused single, "Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win". Jonze also directed the band's much beloved 1994 video for "Sabotage". The hilarious action-pack...

The debut album from Brooklyn's Theophilus London plays like a blender, dicing and splicing his love of synthpop, rock, rap, and new wave into a deliciously eclectic, addictive sonic smoothie. London's lighthearted, party rap tunes here are elevated the genre bending production and his ability to s...

Alaska's Portugal. The Man's sixth studio album suffers some unexpected growing pains, as they deliver their first major label after signing to Atlantic Records last year. Perhaps feeling pressure to take their blend of soul and psychedelic rock to another level, the quartet clutters up a handful o...

Continuing a band after the death of its front man is a tricky proposition, but that is exactly what Sublime With Rome attempts on their debut. Armed with 23-year-old singer and guitarist Rome Ramirez, original drummer, Bud Gaugh, and bass player, Eric Wilson, the appropriately re-titled band conti...

The tightrope walking cover art for Incubus' sixth studio album may lead you to believe its contents are dangerous and exciting. Sadly, nothing could be further from the truth. A better depiction would zoom out to reveal that the man is walking over a pit of velvet-adorned pillows and marshmallows...

Featuring the sons of Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) and Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama), there is little surprise that the debut EP from LA-based Nightmare And The Cat already sounds like a seasoned band. Sam and Django Stewart marry their experience in Blondelle and Midnight Squires, respectively, with the...

This overstuffed look at great new indie music digs into electro-pop from, newcomer, Madison and Canada's Junior Boys, and heads to Portland for pulse-quickening rock from Viva Voce and The Builders And The Butchers. We also find time for a fantastic indie pop debut from Givers and check out two gr...

2011 has already proved to be an incredibly rich year musically, so we thought it was appropriate to celebrate audio greatness by looking at the best albums of the first half of the year. Behold, our list of the twenty-five best albums released in the first half of the year, with quotes from an...