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Few bands have as many great videos as Slipknot.

Learn a couple surprising facts from this exclusive interview with the legend.

Dream thrashers Astronoid go deep with modern prog.

Heavy alt-rockers Puppy school you on some modern day alternative.

Which ones make you laugh the most?

They have a hit with 'Like a Baller.' Here, they explain how you, too, can be a baller.

It's one of many revelations from his wide-ranging Musicians Institute interview. Also: he loves the Duran Duran side project Arcadia.

He selected one of the 'Nightmare on Elm St.' films, but you won't believe which one.

Lzzy Hale is boisterous, seductive, and darkly funny all at once on this album; her alto swoops from seething to soaring.

Keyboards, saxophones, and Hagstrom Fantomen guitars. Ghost's Nameless Ghouls can make any instrument seem cool.