You know you've scaled the rock mountaintop when your name becomes an adjective, and down through the decades, the term Springsteenesque has been applied to everyone from John Mellencamp to Meat Loaf,  …

Being a cultural force of Springsteen's magnitude almost demands being many things at once. On an atomic live version of Edwin Starr's 1970 soul smash "War," Bruce is a sweat-drenched preacher pushing  …

Take one headstrong frontman and team him with a crack cast of brawny rockers, and you've got a band with staying power. Tom Petty sounded strikingly fresh when he and the Heartbreakers turned up on ro …

Tom Petty has stayed vital by maintaining an innate restlessness and orneriness. He battled his label over the price of Hard Promises (Petty wanted to keep the cost down) and took on the music i …

So what, exactly, made ABBA one of the most successful and beloved pop bands of all time? We could say it was the vocals, the way that Agnetha and Frida, especially, sound like they were born to sing t …

Take a moment to consider all the bone-fide smash singles in the great ABBA catalog, and one thing becomes clear - there are plenty of could've-beens, would've-beens, and should've-beens. And that's wh …

"Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose," sang a young James Taylor. Yet by the mid-'70s his songs' shades had brightened considerably, when he proved himself as adept at upbeat R&B as introspec …

For their many fans, the breakup of the Smiths was a tragedy. Happily for them, there was much more heartache in store via frontman Morrissey's solo career. With songs like "The More You Ignore Me, The …

Ask superstar trance DJ Tidsto what his motto is and he'll say, "I feel the energy from the crowd and I try to give it back." That simple line of reasoning - the very reason dance music's such a barrie …