by John Myers, Line Producer, World Cafe on XPN
At the CMJ Music Marathon in the fall of 1995 I went to a Capitol Records showcase one night where the headliner of the three-act bill was Vic Chestnut. I was vaguely familiar with Vic Chestnut’s music, but didn’t know the music of the other acts […]

by Liz Scott, Membership Administrative Assistant, XPN
I had a very memorable musical moment this past weekend when I saw Nickel Creek with Fiona Apple at the Mann Center. I’m used to being packed into standing room only venues where people walking around and talking constantly distract me from the music. The Mann Center […]

Researched by Brian Divver, Web Developer for WXPN

Odyssey of the Devil Horns
Who is responsible for bringing metal’s famous hand signal to the tribe? By Steve Appleford (L.A. City Beat)
Dio on the origin of the “devil horns”

In the spirit of all the metal-themed content today XPN’s resident metal expert Brian Divver, Web Developer, has submitted some lists for your enjoyment and debate.
Songs
1. F*cking hostile - Pantera
2. Angel Of Death - Slayer
3. Ace of Spades - Motorhead
4. Master of Puppets - Metallica
5. Iron Man – Black Sabbath
6. You’ve Got Another Thing Coming […]

In the spirit of all the metal-themed content today XPN’s resident metal expert Brian Divver, Web Developer, has submitted some lists for your enjoyment and debate.
Metal Ballads
Watch the Children Pray – Metal Chuch
Silent Lucidity – Queensryche
Fade to Black – Metallica
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Momma I’m Coming Home – Ozzy Osbourne
Goodbye to Romance - Ozzy Osbourne
So […]

From Brian Divver, Web Developer for WXPN

On April 8, 1991, fellow Mayhem band member, Øystein ‘Euronymous’ Aarseth, found Dead [bandmate], literally dead, with slit wrists, and a shotgun wound to the head. It has been rumored that the suicide note that was found with his corpse simply read “Excuse all the blood.” (Hellhammer later elaborated […]

by Roger LaMay, General Manager, XPN
I would have bet any money that it was the winter of 1972 but my research says it was January 11 & 12, 1974. But we’ll get to that.
In the Fall of 1973, I was hitchhiking from Hampshire College in the Berkshires of Massachussetts to my school, Skidmore, in Saratoga […]

by Liz Scott, Membership Administrative Assistant, XPN
Here is a picture from one of my favorite moments EVER, and I wanted to share it with everyone. While in traveling in San Francisco last summer, we stopped by the old Grateful Dead house in the Haight-Ashbury section of the city. As you can see from the […]

by Brian Divver, Web Content Developer, XPN
I went to see Pantera, Exodus, Suicidal Tendencies and meeting vocalist Mike Muir, bassist Robert Trujillo (now with Metallica), guitarist Rocky George of S.T. and meeting Steve Souza lead vocalist of Exodus. I got all their autographs. That day I even bought my Suicidal Tendencies shirt off of Trujillo. […]

By Cathy Heard, Web Content Developer and Graphic Designer for WXPN
As a pop culture junkie I have some firm rules about cheese, i.e. entertainment of the “so bad, it’s good” variety. My first rule: I infinitely prefer crap to the vast, banal middle or the mediocre. Just don’t bore me. If, as an artist, you […]