It's easy to imagine a rollicking tale teller like "Me & Jiggs" getting the sing-along treatment in a lusty Dublin pub - which is pretty much what happened when Josh Ritter toured Ireland and wound up  …

From the new wavers Split Enz ("I Got You") to the pure pop pleasure of Crowded House ("Don't Dream It's Over") to stand-alone solo material ("She Will Have Her Way"), front man Neil Finn leads the cha …

No band does California soft rock quite like Bread, who, during the early '70s, appeared to somehow capture the mellow evening sunlight, turn it into music, and seal it on vinyl. Their signature tunes  …

Considered by many to be the Muhammad Ali of MCs, Jay-Z has dominated the rap game for more than a decade, from the skewed pop leanings of In My Lifetime and Vol. 2.Hard Knock Life throug …

Oh, to be as in demand as Jay-Z. Aside from having enough skills to fill an entire double album - The Blueprint: The Gift and the Curse, boasting everything from the Timbaland-tweaked synths and …

Bronx-born, of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent, Joseph Cartagena has made a virtue - and an industry - of his plus-size tailor requirements and big-man street rep. The word "heavy" truly characterized h …

The success of Fat Joe's sophomore album Jealous One's Envy (1995) earned the corpulent budding rap leviathan a slot on the remix of LL Cool J's "I Shot Ya," which opens up this hefty batch of N …

Gazing upon the Beach Boys' greatest songs isn't unlike, say, looking out over the Grand Canyon - the jaw drops just the same. Yet what's staggering isn't merely the quantity of classics (although that …

From the Bangles to Bikini Kill and beyond, there hasn't been an all-female rock band that didn't owe a deep debt to the Runaways. When punk was barely an idea, they came blasting out of L.A. wi …