Despite reports to the contrary, jazz was never dead - it was just waiting for the Bad Plus to come along and give it an energizing kick in the butt. Just as boundary-breakers like Miles Davis united t …

There's a lot more to the Bad Plus than just the novelty appeal of jazzed-up rock; when piano demon Ethan Iverson lets loose on the ivories, he can churn up an 88-key firestorm. Drummer Dave King's "Th …

As much as we love the scream-'til-you-drop side of hardcore, bands like Earth Crisis and Converge are nearly impossible to follow without their lyric sheets at your side. Rise Against, on the other ha …

The back-to-basics members of Rise Against had been together for only two years when they cut The Unraveling with Mass Giorgini, a bassist/producer best known for his work with Screeching Weasel …

A philosophy student at the University of Glasgow, Lloyd Cole wasn't quite the usual rock star when he and his band the Commotions emerged in the early '80s as jangle-pop trailblazers - so while the wo …

Rare treasures await in our Lloyd Cole Deep Cuts. A healthy shot of underrated album tracks includes the jangle-pop beauty "Perfect Blue," the acoustic-electronic merging of a contented "I Am No …

The kind of sophisticated tastemaker who gives Latin lounge a good name, Buenos Aires-born Federico Aubele combines his melodious acoustic guitar riffs with electronic beats and wispy female vocals for …

After cheekily launching their career by sending a demo of "Just What I Needed" to Boston's #1 radio station - and landing in heavy rotation, thanks to the one-two punch of DJ support and listener resp …

By 1987, the bloom was well off new wave's rose, and as you can hear in "Double Trouble" from their final album, Door To Door, the Cars tried to change with the times, abandoning the spikier edg …