Friday Five: Pooh Shiesty ushers in 'blrrrd' season, Hayley Williams grasps for independence, and more
The five best songs we heard this week.
Did the CIA write the Scorpions' hit 'Wind of Change'? A new podcast investigates
New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe looks into the rumor that the intelligence agency was behind power ballad "Wind of Change."
For S&M2, Metallica aimed to balance the past and present
Drummer Lars Ulrich on avoiding nostalgia, and why the band decided to reunite with the San Francisco Symphony.
Tool's Fear Inoculum is a deeply satisfying return to form
All the hallmarks of the band's last two albums — 2001's Lateralus and 2006's 10,000 Days — are revisited and reinvented
