Korn frontman Jonathan Davis explained to Billboard his band's connection with the dubstep phenomenon.

"We were dubstep before there was dubstep," Davis says. "Tempos at 140 with half-time drums, huge bassed-out riffs. We used to bring out 120 subwoofers and line them across the whole front of the stage, 60 subs per side. We were all about the bass."

Korn mines those roots on its 10th album, "The Path of Totality" (Dec. 2, Roadrunner), enlisting the talents of the aggressive electronic genre's top producers, from poster boy Skrillex (aka Sonny Moore) to Noisia, one of its most respected experimental collectives, for an 11-track set that signifies more than an urgent new sound for the almost 20-year-old band. The Path of Totality also stands as dubstep's first official smash-up with its obvious cousin, hard rock. And if social media tests are any indication, the kids are more than ready for it.

"Probably the most active young audience out there is the dubstep audience, just as Korn's was when they first came on the scene," says Peter Katsis, the band's manager since its self-titled 1994 debut. "There's a reason why they're attracted to each other; why a guy like Skrillex went from [singing lead in a hardcore] band like From First to Last to doing what he's doing [today]."

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Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker spent last Sunday tweeting angrily at the LAPD over a traffic stop. An officer pulled over Barker after noticing Barker's vehicle had illegally tinted windows and no license plate. TMZ reports:

But after the incident, Barker BLASTED the cop on Twitter -- saying, "Officer FARD of LAPD, get a life man. Find some bank robbers or do something productive 2 do with your time. I know high school was hard 4 u."

Barker continued, "Pullin me over interrogating me & acting like u did over tinted windows till u scared the piss out my kids was uncalled 4.Job well done man."

He also claims the officer "had the nerve" to ask if he had guns in the car.

LAPD has since invited Barker to discuss the situation; and Barker's rep says, "We are handling this privately with the LAPD."

All that's missing is whether or not Barker asked the cop, "Do you know who I am?"

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Rage Against The Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha posted a poem dedicated to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Rage Against The Machine famously made their own attempt to Occupy Wall Street in the Michael Moore-directed music video for "Sleep Now In The Fire."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w211KOQ5BMI