Who will be the next Velvet Underground? While that question hasn't left the lips of critics and art punk-adoring VU cultists since the band split up in 1973, Andy Warhol himself would have appreciated …

They were "the only band that mattered," the fateful foursome that tore into the London punk scene with the white-hot ferocity of their first single, "White Riot," before making the leap to trail-blazi …

According to Chris Bohn of the U.K.'s New Musical Express, "The Dolls epitomized trash. They were tart, amoral, stupid, crass and vulgar." Counterpoint? Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Time …

Flash-forward 30 or so years; Johansen has blazed through multiple personalities (including lounge barbarian Buster Poindexter), Sylvain is in semi-retirement, and Johnny Thunders, bassist Arthur Kane, …

There's more to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs than Karen O, a natural-born rock star who stalks the stage like a feral cat crossbred with Iggy Pop. For starters, there's the rest of her buzz-stoking band: a pist …

While a surf guitar-led cover of the Ramones' "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" isn't a surprise coming from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs camp, some of the following songs stage a sneak attack on your speakers. For sta …

Pianist Robert Glasper's trio revitalizes the jazz tradition, injecting an adrenaline shot of hip-hop-schooled rhythms into the bebop bloodstream. On "F.T.B." drummer Damion Reid's doubled-up breakbeat …

In 1977, Chic hit the Top 10 out of the gate with its debut single, "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)." It was only a hint of the success to come for founders Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwar …

Linda Ronstadt's been doing it her way for five decades. She first emerged as a folk-rock ingenue with the Stone Poneys, hitting big in '67 with Monkee Mike Nesmith's "Different Drum." By the '70s, she …