In creating Wooden Shjips back in 2003, lynchpin member Ripley Johnson executed one of the boldest and most daring ideas in modern rock — namely, to create envelope-pushing, out-there sounds using a po …

C'est un petit chien nommé Mirza qui lui apporta la notoriété du jour au lendemain et qui lui mit le doigt dans l'engrenage des succès un peu « faciles » et peu représentatifs de son énorme talent. Nin …

Grand Corps Malade explore un territoire vierge où les repères sont avant tout ceux qu'il s'invente lui-même. Ses textes semblent devoir être écoutés plutôt que lus, car il s'agit là d'un style plus pr …

Prolifique et polyvalent, le compositeur Bruno Coulais a touché à tout, comptant à son actif une bonne cinquantaine de bandes sonores. Son œuvre se compose à la fois de musiques de documentaire, de fil …

Every now and again, the forced dislocation of refugees generates, against all odds, a pop cultural ray of light like . . . K'naan. The Muslim rapper was raised until age 13 in lawless Somalia (where h …

Texan post-rock quartet Explosions in the Sky doesn't simply make great instrumental songs — according to its own agenda, the band aims to create "cathartic mini-symphonies", which could come across al …

An inspiration to the likes of Mark Knopfler, Neil Young, and sometime cohort Eric Clapton, J.J. Cale ranks as one of the coolest — and we're talking a genuine Steve McQueen degree of cool here — guita …

Whimsical, scatological, nonsensical . . . are just three ways to describe the Adam Green vibe, and that's barely scratching the surface. We haven't mentioned the lush Jim Morrisonesque baritone that t …

Conceived as something of a hoax in the late-'80s by keyboard and guitar prodigy Steven Wilson – mainly to showcase his talent and affection for experimental rock – Porcupine Tree gradually took on a l …