Il n'y aura sans doute plus jamais de formation de jazz comme celle du MJQ, dont le succès et la notoriété internationale n'ont jamais été égalés. Créé en 1952 par le vibraphoniste Milt Jackson (1923-1 …

Jamaican roots reggae god Augustus Pablo (born Horace Swaby in 1954) made a name for himself as a fine keyboardist and an outstanding dub producer, but he will go down in legend as the man who took a k …

Principal songwriter Steve Knightley and cohort Phil Beer play a dizzying array of instruments — including such rarely heard exotica as the mandocello and the cuatro — and, as Show of Han …

Max Romeo's solo roots reggae career (he had first been a member of vocal trio the Emotions) begins with Romeo singing and Lee "Scratch" Perry twiddling knobs on the suggestive 1968 hit "Wet Dream". Th …

Maybe none of them was actually named Tony, but as R&B innovators with a bone-deep respect for history, Oakland brothers Dwayne and Raphael Wiggins, and cousin Timothy Christian — a.k.a. Tony! Toni! To …

Dès son premier disque en 1995, La valse des monstres, qui regroupait des compositions pour le théâtre, on savait que le jeune musicien serait promis à une brillante carrière. Seulement, il fallait att …

Formed in 1984 from the ashes of Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons by frontman Joe Camilleri, the Black Sorrows was supposed to be nothing more than a casual, Sunday night café band — a semi-acoustic addition  …

Ever-morphing rock outfit Hawkwind — whose plethora of lineup changes since 1969 is too vast to commit to memory — has produced superior rock of the space, prog, and psychedelic varieties for the best  …

Ian MacKaye, Guy Picciotto, Joe Lally, and Brendan Canty were already well-respected vets of the D.C. punk scene when they formed Fugazi back in '87. The group's staunch anticorporate stance and sociop …