Just as the U.S. has its Madonna and the U.K. has its Kylie, Africa has its Angélique, an iconic pop diva who owns the hearts of her homeland fans but also extends her embrace to a global audience. A m …

While Atlanta, Georgia, has generated mainstream buzz as Justin Bieber's adopted home town, an alternative kind of fanfare should be sounded for fellow residents, Deerhunter, who have consistently surp …

In 1980, 54-40 emerged from the Vancouver punk scene with a clearly defined vision: write great songs, play live, and never look back. They've stayed true to that vision for 25 years with few lineup ch …

The always enchanting Katie Noonan is a self-described "schizophrenic — musically speaking," which is another way of saying she's been gifted with more than the usual allocation of vocal talent, allowi …

"Is that you on the bus, is that you on the train/You wrote your number on my hand and it came off in the rain" — frustration, desire, insanely catchy melodies and lyrical poetry are combined in fresh  …

Like many pop icons, Kate started young — at 15, she was fronting funk outfit I'm Talking (a splinter group produced by the more experimental Essenden Airport), with whom she won a bunch of best-vocali …

Une certaine nonchalance, un style décontracté, tranquille, où rien ne presse, d'ailleurs il lui a fallu quatre albums dont un double avant de se voir gratifié d'un tube en 1977 avec le single « T'as b …

Raised in a family of Northumberland folkies, and encouraged to bring songs to parties that would also attract other like-minded musical clans, including the Elliotts (a mining family from Durham), the …

Cutting-edge ambient composer Harold Budd was raised in California's Mojave Desert, where the hum of wind through telegraph wires set his musical imagination aflame and helped spark the groundbreaking  …