Pop goes back to pre-school with the Wiggles, Australia's world-conquering song 'n' dance troupe. Join the four-strong gang of color-coded kiddie icons - Jeff, Murray, Anthony, and Greg - as they sing  …

Bikini Kill is truly the band that put the "grrr" in riot grrrl, the girl-centric punk rock movement of the early '90s. Singer Kathleen Hanna became a feminist icon with songs like "New Radio," which w …

Through three decades, Sonic Youth has wrung beauty from discord, dreaming up a musical universe all their own and then allowing us all in to party in their playground. It's been a long journey from th …

Sonic Youth may have rewritten the rock 'n' roll rulebook - or burned it in a Lower East Side trashcan fire and assembled a new one from the ashes - but they didn't develop in a vacuum. Visiting the wo …

Doris Day had originally planned to be a dancer - she won $500 in an amateur competition at aged 13 but suffered a nasty broken leg in a car smash. However, during her convalescence above a Cincinnati  …

The big band/World War II era really put Day on the map: even though she was still a teenager, her voice made her sound older, in a sultry kind of way. After working with Barney Rapp (the man who sugge …

Rick James was many things - he was a funk-bass wizard and punk-funk pioneer; a duet partner for Motown label-mate Smokey Robinson (they scored with soul ballad "Ebony Eyes" in 1983); the producer who  …

The incredible story of Rick James becomes a little surreal here, as we rewind to 1966, when - under the name Ricky James Matthews (he was born James Ambrose Johnson, Jr.) - our hero was in Toronto fro …

Irv Gotti was definitely onto something when he discovered Ashanti in the early '00s. A success story well beyond the Murder Inc. don's wildest dreams, she broke record after record in her first year,  …