It's no surprise that Nick Hexum, lead singer of the Omaha rap/rock/reggae band 311, lashes out at music journalists within the first minute of the group's new fourth album, Transistor. After all, 311 ...

Hop aboard the new CD by the skater-friendly rock band 311, and you’re in for a wild ride. Punk, reggae, hip-hop and jazz swirl around in a murky melange on “Transistor,” the group’s fourth release.

In a recent interview, 311 frontman Nick Hexum was quoted as saying, “We’ve paid the bills, now it’s time to be artists.” After a breakthrough smash hit (Down) and a wildly successful album, 311 ...

The numbers have been good for the Los Angeles band 311 lately; its 1995 album, also called “311,” sold nearly 3 million copies. But that kind of success, after two albums of slowly gaining an ...

In Canon Fodder, we revisit, re-evaluate and rank the discographies of music's most reviled artists, to answer a simple question: How bad are they really? Before there was the Beyhive, there was the ...

The band reunited with Scotch Ralston, the Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros soundman who worked with them on 1997's "Transistor" and 1999's "Soundsystem." By Kevin Rutherford, Billboard 311 Nick ...

1. Summer of Love (Unreleased Version – 1994) 2. Juan Bond (311 Sessions – 1995) 3. Firewater – Normal Speed (311 Sessions – 1995) 4. Next (311 Sessions – 1995) 5. Grifter (Transistor Sessions – 1997) ...

Subtlety is not something you expect from a band whose sound is built around guitar crunch and pumped-up dancehall riddim. But even though much of the music on 311’s fourth album, “Transistor,” is ...

These California funkateers dabble in metal guitar riffs, but at its core “Transistor” is just another shade of background music for the noodle-dancing H.O.R.D.E. crowd. The group delivers feel-good ...