"It's so hard when you get old," sings Steve Wynn on 2008's spry folk fusion "Annie & Me," but if the confession comes more than 25 years after haunting and hallowed rockers like the Dream Syndicate's  …

You'd think eleven GRAMMYr nominations and millions of albums sold would be enough to secure any band's place in musical history. But, inexplicably, the Yellowjackets haven't garnered the respect they  …

If "Shades" sounds like a lost Steely Dan track, it's for good reason: Donald Fagen composed it as a tribute to the Yellowjackets' ability to blend "shades" of electronic and acoustic sonic textures wi …

Philly soul reaches its smooth, creamy zenith with the O'Jays, who are still recording after more than four decades in the business. They add sugar-sweet harmonies to ballads and give a lush veneer to  …

Before Rowling turned up with her junior wizards there was only one J.K. who mattered - English acid jazz maestro Jason Kay, a.k.a. Jay Kay, the all-singing, all move-bustin' frontman of the soul-funk- …

From the quiet-storm stylings of "Talullah" to the fierce rock formations on "Black Devil Car," Jamiroquai's willingness to springboard away from their acid-jazz beginnings has opened up a galaxy of fu …

It's an old story - band steps out of its comfort zone to try something new and scores a smash, only to wind up a one-hit wonder when they can't sustain the success. It was the fate that seemed to lay  …

If songs like 2009's "Morning Sun" play like yet another welcome installment in Sugar Ray's long line of easygoing daydreamers, it doesn't mean it's all the band has up its sleeve. The fact that Sugar  …

If Ted Nugent didn't exist, we'd have to invent him. How else could we find one man who so perfectly embodies each and every one of our most primal instincts with his dinosaur-ridin' rock-caveman image …