It's more than just that big, blue voice that made Patty Loveless a country music institution - her real musical superpower is an uncanny ability to completely inhabit songs from all across the  …

It's a long, long way from Brisbane to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Over the course of four decades, the Bee Gees have sold more than 130 million albums on their way to becoming the second-biggest b …

Opening with a simple, stark solo piano drenched in so much reverb it sounds like it's being played in a cathedral, Trafalgar's "Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself" picks up where "How Can You Mend  …

By the time Atreyu left Victory Records in early 2007 - just five years and three albums into their career - they had enough fan favorites to fill a best-of collection. We're talkin' songs that you sin …

It's no coincidence that Mack 10's name channels that of a .45 caliber submachine gun. As one-third of the gangsta rap supergroup Westside Connection (alongside longtime collaborator Ice Cube and WC of …

In the hands of Chris Carrabba - the pounding heart of Dashboard Confessional - an acoustic guitar can become a weapon, an instrument of adolescent angst that is to be followed at all costs by a genera …

When Michael Stipe himself shows up to help you cover an R.E.M. tune (a moonlit and moody rendition of "Drive"), you must be doing something right. And, well, Chris Carrabba has been hitting the mark f …

Conceptualist and leader of Zap Mama, Zaire-born, Belgium-raised Marie Daulne launched the female quintet without instrumental backing, the group slowly introducing beats, rhythms, and musical grooves  …

The runaway success of Nevermind - Nirvana's second full-length album and definitive footprint in the history of rock 'n' roll - didn't just make the band the Next Big Thing of the growin …