Happy Chinese New Year, everybody. May your Year of the Ox be Fucked Up. But first, the raucous Canadians in Fucked Up are sending off the old year with a 12" and digital EP featuring 11-minute A-side "Year of the Rat". Yes, this thing has been in the works for a while. Recorded at the end of 2008, the track is a guitar-stacked epic apparently i...

Our last report on Johnny Cash's posthumous goings-on took the opportunity presented by Johnny Cash Remixed to illuminate the similarities between country music and rap. It turns out the comparison was more apt than we could have imagined. Judging from the Cash output planned for this month alone, the Man in Black rivals Tupac in sheer quantity ...