For the better part of a decade, mass culture was mostly unaware of the thriving "Juggalo" subculture that evolved around fans of the rapping-clown group Insane Clown Posse, but that changed last year when the earnest, unintentionally funny...

I'm generally pretty open minded about music, or at the very least I try to take a "to each their own" outlook when possible, but occasionally there's music so offensively bad that I can't understand how anybody in the world could possibly listen to it. Near the top of that list is Insane Clown Posse and all the many spin-off acts associated with this violent clown rap ensemble. It's hard to imagi...

If a supergroup is comprised only of members of bands that nobody wants to hear, is it still considered a supergroup? No band begs that question more than Dark Lotus, which headlines an 8 p.m. show at the Rave. This “supergroup”—let’s just call them an “evil supergroup,” a title they’d almost surely embrace—is made . . .

Face-painted, rappers more than a little indebted to the Insane Clown Posse, the Michigan duo Twiztid appears totally unfazed by the fall the rap-rock/nu-metal movement. They’ve soddered on, recording the same, hardcore, Eminem-styled rap they’ve loved since the ’90s. Tonight the group headlines a 7 p.m. show . . .