Hank Shteamer

Hank Shteamer was formerly a senior music editor at Rolling Stone. He has written about music professionally for more than 15 years. He wrote a book on Ween’s ‘Chocolate and Cheese’ album for the 33 1/3 series, and runs Heavy Metal Bebop, an interview series dedicated to the intersections of jazz and heavy metal.

The 25 Best Rage Against the Machine Songs

From funky, radical bombtracks to incendiary covers, here are the rap-metal masters' finest moments
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  Rolling Stone
Meet the Drummer Who's Covering Entire Led Zeppelin Shows on YouTube

Song by song and gig by gig, George Fludas is resurrecting the John Bonham sound on his Bonhamology channel
- Music
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  Hank Shteamer
Inside hate5six, the YouTube Channel That's Bringing Hardcore to the Masses

Sunny Singh has singlehandedly built one of the web's key archives of live-music footage, fending off everything from flying limbs to racist attacks in the process
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  Hank Shteamer
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Gospel, Hardcore Cult Faves, Continue Their Great Prog-Punk Gene Splice on 'S.R.O.'

Seventeen years after dropping its lone LP, prized by fans of outside-the-box heaviness, the New York band returns with a follow-up
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  Hank Shteamer
The 40 Greatest Red Hot Chili Peppers Songs

They've preserved their californicating essence through countless reinventions and funk-rap breakdowns for nearly four decades. Here are their finest moments
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  Rolling Stone
Grammys 2022: The 20 Best, Worst, and Most WTF Moments

Dazzling performances, shocking shutouts, questionable wins, the presence of Jared Leto — our rundown of the night's highs and lows
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  Rolling Stone
Taylor Hawkins: 10 Great Performances, From Foo Fighters to Alanis Morissette

Classic Foos moments, brilliant covers, and more — a look back at the long career of a multi-talented rock dynamo
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  Rolling Stone
Meshuggah’s ‘Immutable’ Mission

Tomas Haake on the tolls and triumphs of three decades behind the drums with the masters of mind-warping metal
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  Hank Shteamer
Ian McDonald, King Crimson and Foreigner Co-Founder, Dead at 75

Multi-instrumentalist helped craft the progressive-rock cornerstone In the Court of the Crimson King and played on Foreigner's massively successful early LPs
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  Hank Shteamer
'Some of Us Went Through Hell': New King Crimson Doc Trailer Reveals Agony and Ecstasy of Legendary Band

Doc will show, according to co-founder Robert Fripp, “The rock & roll lifestyle of glamour and excess in fine detail, including getting on and off buses, living and dying, resentment, a little humor, and even some music"
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  Hank Shteamer