The voice of Alison Moyet was one of the defining sounds of the '80s — an inimitable, bluesy thing of beauty that stood out a country mile when she first arrived on the charts as one half of Yaz …

Despite the combustibility that doomed the girls at the height of their fame, and the Studio 1 comeback album that failed to duplicate earlier triumphs, All Saints had us at their mercy over the …

À travers sa musique, Cesaria Evora a su mettre en avant le Cap-Vert, cet archipel du bout du monde, ainsi que la morna, un style musical qui puise son identité dans le fado portugais. C’est en 1993 av …

On ne sait plus s'il est né à Memphis ou à Nashville, ou en banlieue de Paris. Il est tellement « Eddy Mitchell » depuis 1960 que Claude Moine – son vrai nom – ne lui dit peut-être plus grand-chose. Ad …

Jazz/swing vocalist Susie Arioli got her big break in 1998, when her band — featuring lynchpin guitarist Jordan Officer — opened for Ray Charles at the Montreal Jazz Festival. The first year of the new …

Many of Newman's finest pieces are attached to complex, mature, and disturbing ideas and images: his score for The Good German (title theme included here), an homage to noir, brilliantly navigat …

Under the moniker Boards of Canada, Scottish electronic experimentalists Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin — who are brothers — have woven thematic obsessions with numerology, nostalgia and subliminal c …

If Sebastian were an archer, he would be able to shoot multiple arrows at the same time, as these Next Steps prove there are many strings to his bow. He’s just as comfortable creating a stripped-down a …

Bass/baritone superstar Bryn Terfel has the kind of voice that makes microphones obsolete. Put it this way: if he stood in a field in Wales, faced west, and let loose a rousing blast of "Danny Boy", th …