Check out the bawdy stand-up stylings of "Why Bother?" "Otto Titsling," and "Soph"; sample the lush and loung-y love song "P.S. I Love You"; or catch the mother of all stage-mom show tunes, "Everything …

During a tragically abbreviated career, Jaco Pastorius redefined the role of the bass in jazz and pop. Not content to use the instrument as a rhythmic anchor, Jaco took it into the spotlight and off in …

When the group LeVert broke out in the mid-'80s, it looked like Gerald was following in his legendary daddy's soulful, synchronized footsteps as a powerful force in a great R&B vocal trio. But where Ed …

Politically driven, and notably loyal to indie label Epitaph/Hellcat despite a major-label bidding war ferocious enough to inspire the title of 1995's major success . . . And Out Come the Wolves …

Here's your chance to sample Rancid's roots in Operation Ivy ("Unity," "Sound System") before tracing the band's evolution from the skate-punk/hardcore flourishes of 1993's self-titled debut album, via …

When six-year-old Dido stole a recorder from school, her parents wisely figured that music might be in the future for their precocious young thief. They enrolled her in music school, and by her teens D …

Before hitting it big on her own, Dido sang with Faithless ("No Roots"), a trip-hop outfit helmed by her brother, producer Rollo Armstrong. But if electronica is an element that suffuses much of Dido's …

Not just an exponent, but an architect of neo-soul in the '90s, Maxwell made his name in R&B on the back of an album that initially worried record label executives - it was, they thought, too square in …

If ever a rocker built a rep on tap-dancing back and forth across the line that separates creativity and madness, Love frontman Arthur Lee was it. In fact, by the time of his death in 2006, Lee had bee …