Selah has always had a Three Musketeers-type of musical agenda, but that doesn't mean the members of the trio haven't done a little moonlighting too. On his own, Todd Smith busts out of the band's ball …

By the late '90s, most of the grunge gods - Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden - had fallen by the wayside. But a rockin' gang of roughnecks rose up out of Lawrence, Massachusetts, to take that Seat …

Godsmack may be known for a hard-charging sonic attack that lays waste to all in its path, but there's more than just one weapon in the arsenal of these rock 'n' roll warriors. The hypnotic acoustic gu …

Dinah Washington wasn't just a singer; she was a force of nature, blazing through the music world with a dazzling brightness, bringing to her songs the same intensity that fueled her turbulent, too-sho …

Even though Dinah's wildly diverse talents enabled her to inhabit the worlds of jazz, pop, and R&B with equal aplomb, the Alabama-born, Chicago-bred songbird had deep roots in the blues. In 1949, still …

Los Lobos (or Los Lobos del Este de Los Angeles, as they were originally called) is an American musical treasure. Nurtured on barrio soul and mariachi, over their three-decade career they've sunk their …

If there's such a thing as the First Family of Funk, the Neville Brothers - Art, Charles, Cyril, and Aaron - would have to be it. The bands they've been a part of, including the Wild Tchoupitoulas, the …

In Deep Cuts, we move from the Nevilles' more spiritual pursuits to an earthier sort of love, but we'll ease into it gently with a track that weds the two spheres in the elegant style of a long-gone er …

"I'm not afraid of the dark," sings Josh Ritter on the defiantly hopeful "Long Shadows," and if Ritter has proven anything over the course of his career, it's that he's up for the challenge of true art …