Plugged In

Buffalo Killers, Dashboard Confessional, The Mandelbrots, The Smug Brothers and more

• Skeletonwitch is fired up

  Sophomore slump? Not much slumps when you’ve got the energy of the five young Ohio headbangers who’ve banded together as Skeletonwitch.

• B-Sides: Music & Other Ephemera

  Gwar-fare

• Out of hand

  A search for Gary Stewart and the origins of country music