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Twenty years after the premiere of 'American Idol,' Rob Sheffield reflects on the show's wild heyday and depressing afterlife.

More than three decades after the demise of the cheeky, Detroit-bred rock publication, Creem is back with an ambitious print and digital effort.

 A plaster cast of the penis of musician Jimi Hendrix, made by Cynthia Albritton, has been donated to the Icelandic Phallological Museum in Reykjavik.

Soundgarden members Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd have engaged in various other projects since frontman Chris Cornell died in 2017.

Revisiting Soundgarden's final concert before Chris Cornell's death on May 18, 2017.

'Plaster Caster' Cynthia Albritton donated the cast prior to her death this past April.

'Plaster Caster' Cynthia Albritton donated the cast prior to her death this past April.

Though the Ramones exhibition at the Queens Museum in 2016 gained Marc Miller a wider audience, he was instrumental in framing the punk scene as an total art movement, organizing a seminal Punk Art Show in Washington D.C. in 1978, then salvaging, storing and cataloging essential punk artifacts at his 98 Bowery loft, which became Gallery 98. Eric Davidson joins Miller on a conversational tour through his amazing career in art.

Prior to her death last month, former groupie Cynthia "Plaster Caster" Albritton, who gained fame for her sculptures of Jimi Hendrix's penis and other iconic rock stars, donated to The Icelandic Phallological Museum one of a few cast replicas of the legendary guitarist's genitalia. Future guests of...

'Plaster Caster' Cynthia Albritton donated the cast prior to her death this past April.