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You can dismiss Blink-182 as cartoons if you like. They’re certainly not going to stop you. They even call their new album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket: Say it out loud, let your inner eighth-grader savor the cadence of the phrase. It sums up Blink-182’s wiseass brat-punk ethos almost as well as their recent live album, The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back), which featured the butt-stupidest stage banter since Kiss’ Alive! (Mark: “You can leave now and beat the traffic!” Tom: “Or you can stay and beat your meat!” – and they get paid for… Read more »

The scene onstage at Jimmy Z’s is unmistakable: the singer is screeching “Sin City,” right hand on the mic, left hand cocked at the side like it might just fire bullets from the fingers drawn in a heavy metal devil salute. Several feet away, the guitarist’s head is in a non-stop nod to the beat; a schoolboy necktie squirms under a burgundy Gibson SG. Uh, but wait a minute… this Angus Young is wearing a miniskirt. And the person rocking the spotlight isn’t a middle-aged Aussie man, but a twentysomething African-American woman. Ding dong, welcome to the world of Hell’s… Read more »

Those of you who thought The Velvet Rope marked the end of Janet Jackson’s music-to-make-you-blush motif will be surprised, if not shocked, after listening to her new album, All for You. Due out on April 24, the LP is dominated by two themes: the liberation that comes with ending a bad relationship, and sex. On the sultry ballad “Love Scene (Ooh Baby),” Janet breaks out the F-word as she fantasizes about her partner “playing with [her] body”; even steamier is “Would You Mind,” in which the Grammy Award-winner paints a rather explicit lovemaking scenario before moaning until the song’s end.… Read more »