While it's easy to assume that EPMD's in their comfort zone on such career standouts as "Knick Knack Patty Wack" (featuring the same Joe Cocker sample as 2Pac's "California Love") and "Never Defeat Em" …

While they have an unmistakable musical personality, Train can turn out an unexpected combo-platter of styles, putting them together with seamless sonic mastery. Who ever guessed, for instance, that on …

One of Train's greatest gifts has always been their ability to jump from a full-throttle blast of rock 'n' roll abandon to the tender whisper of a gentle ballad. The heavens open up when the band leaps …

tobyMac doesn't hold anything back. Whether he's unleashing a hard-rocking firestorm, laying down some dazzling dance-floor moves, or ripping out a few heavy-duty rhymes, once he brings it, it s …

You don't dedicate your life - and your music - to spreading the word of the Lord without a strong sense of community. tobyMac started out as part of the DC Talk team, but even after heading out …

When Pat Metheny first burst on the scene as a bold young lion of the electric guitar, giving the instrument an audacious new voice, legions of jazz fans suddenly realized this was the sound the …

If there's anything at all to the old saying about judging a man by the company he keeps, then Pat Metheny's personal score must be off the charts - the regal roster of his collaborators speaks to his  …

When Pete Yorn announced Break Up - a Scarlett Johansson collaboration that channels the immortal duets of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot - many listeners dropped their jaws at the very th …

As if the speaker-pelting synth showers of "Use Me" - Pete Yorn's dance-floor-detonating Kinky collab - weren't surprising enough, the New Jersey native had to go and cover Nick Cave's Paradise Lost …