The The's Matt Johnson got his view on nighttime London early, growing up over his dad's popular pub and checking out the rockers and bluesmen performing at his uncle's nightclubs. Inspired, young Matt …

So you're a London boy, born and bred, who's made a name as a groove-driven, alt-music mastermind with early-days experiments like "Another Boy Drowning" and eerie, late-night seductions like "Beyond L …

No, really. The mad prog-rock scientists behind the Mars Volta are the same two Texans who screamed and soloed their way across the slash-and-burn soundscapes of At the Drive-In. Those shamanistic punk …

To understand the ridiculous range of Cedric Bixler-Zavala - the Mars Volta's mercurial frontman - you might want to blast the following cuts: his elbow-throwing Black Flag cover ("I've Had It"), the c …

Many detractors assumed John Mayer would never replicate the crossover smash status of his GRAMMYr-winning single "Your Body Is a Wonderland." Yet, the slinky-voiced singer/songwriter has surpassed exp …

It's easy to say that L.A.-based producers Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland - better known as the Crystal Method - make great music to club by, but it's a little harder to define what exactly makes it so  …

What do you do after you define the big-beat sound of a country with cuts like the smokin' sonic cloud "Vapor Trail"? If you're the Crystal Method, you shake up your own stuff proper, bringing in heavy …

Back when "new age" was actually new - in fact, before it even had the name "new age" - a composer named Chip Davis had an idea for a band with what was then a new sound. He had co-created the m …

Given that Christmas heralded Mannheim Steamroller's breakthrough to multi-platinum sales, it was only natural that creator Chip Davis would want to extend his brand to other holidays, notably Hallowee …