CoS Top of the Decade

CoS Best of the Decade: A Recap

By CoS Staff on December 24th, 2009

A chance to catch up… and bitch some more.

CoS Festival of the Decade: Bonnaroo Music Festival

By Drew Litowitz on December 23rd, 2009

“…hands down, the best damn musical festival to emerge this decade.”

CoS Live Act of the Decade: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

By Dan Caffrey on December 23rd, 2009

Simply put, no other live band without gimmicks can beat them. Period.

CoS Band of the Decade: Green Day

By Michael Roffman on December 21st, 2009

“A guy walks up to me and asks ‘What’s Punk?’. So I kick over a garbage can and say ‘That’s punk!’. So he kicks over the garbage can and says ‘That’s Punk?’, and I say ‘No, that’s trend!’”

–Billie Joe Armstrong

CoS Artist of the Decade: Jack White

By Chris Coplan on December 21st, 2009

Jack White: Enigmatic showman, a creative dynamo and cult of personality. All in less than a decade.

List ‘Em Carefully: The Top 10 Greatest Album Closers of the Decade

By Drew Litowitz on December 8th, 2009

CoS’s Drew Litowitz talks about the decade’s all-time greatest curtain calls — sonically speaking, of course.

CoS Top of the Decade: The Songs

By CoS Staff on November 24th, 2009

When we look back on the ’00s, what the hell are we going to remember?

Album Review: Rammstein – Liebe Ist Für Alle Da

By David Buchanan on November 18th, 2009

2009’s Liebe Ist Für Alle Da is an example of one reason Rammstein leaves lasting impacts in countries whose primary languages are not German — a juxtaposition of beastly masculinity and beautiful orchestration that transcends the tongues we all speak.

CoS Top of the Decade: The Albums

By CoS Staff on November 17th, 2009

It’s hard to believe that ten years have gone by. Where’s my hoverboard, dammit?