3/28/2011
The diversity of songwriters such as Traffic, Laura Nyro, and Billie Holiday gives some indication as to the breadth of Blood, Sweat & Tears' influences, and the group's ability to imprint such materia …
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3/28/2011
It was the dreamier, softer tunes such as "Longer" and "Same Old Lang Syne" that cemented Dan Fogelberg's reputation and chart success, but a California-style soft rocker called "Part of the Plan," fro …
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3/25/2011
When Wynton Marsalis first electrified the jazz world in the early '80s, few could know the impact the young trumpeter would have on the American art form. Picking up where his early idol, Miles Davis, …
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3/25/2011
A big part of jazz genius is how well you play with others, and Wynton Marsalis brings collaboration to a whole new level, drawing out the best in his comrades and letting them underscore the finest in …
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3/22/2011
Under the name Everything But the Girl (borrowed, incidentally, from a furniture store that claimed, "For your bedroom needs we sell everything but the girl"), Ben Watt and golden-voiced Tracey Thorn h …
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3/22/2011
Here, we supply the bread for EBTG's endlessly nourishing musical sub - some of the work they put out before their debut album, and after the band's 1999 hiatus. Marine Girls showcased Thorn's vocal sk …
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3/22/2011
When Chris Brown arrived midway through the '00s, he looked every bit the complete contemporary R&B package - boasting that too-rare triple-whammy of looks, moves, and vocals, the prodigiously gifted t …
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3/22/2011
In addition to the pop-skewed, butter-wouldn't-melt R&B vibe that he mines on tracks like "I Love U" - a hook-up with Ester Dean from the Deluxe Edition of 2009's Graffiti - and the soulful romantic ba …
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3/22/2011
Bad Religion has been firing out their sharp-shooting brand of intellectual punk with pop hooks for three decades, redefining what it means to be "hardcore." Singer/college professor Greg Graffin can f …
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