Maroon 5's debut, Songs About Jane, was one of the biggest underdog uprisings of the past decade, taking a record-setting 26 months to finally crack the Top 10. All thanks to the grinding guitar …

The midnight-black poetry of Leonard Cohen, the seductive chanson of Edith Piaf, the hearts-afire balladry of the classic torch songs - it's all fair game for Madeleine Peyroux, musical alchemis …

Madeleine Peyroux isn't just a singer, she's a storyteller - her voice climbs inside of a song, somehow discovering brand-new meaning in even the most familiar tales. In her hands, Patsy  …

Talk about good things happening to those who wait. While Fountains of Wayne formed in 1996, they didn't score their first real hit until "Stacy's Mom" snuck onto the charts with sly lyrics and sunbeam …

It must be nice to go home to your mom or girlfriend one day and say, "Guess who discovered me today? Peter Gabriel!" Not-your-average-singer-songwriter brought that topic to the kitchen table back in  …

Already generating buzz in her native Europe, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1996, as the devious maid Despina in Mozart's Cos8 Fan Tutte. Wielding her …

So many of our greatest soul singers - Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, and Ray Charles, for example - came from a gospel upbringing. Add to that list Brian McKnight, whose church choir childhood adds genui …

Speaking in the simplest terms possible, 311's been a rap-rock band from the very beginning, complete with crunch-time chords, box-cutter rhymes, and a co-vocalist who spins and scratches records onsta …

While most modern rock acts have struggled with maintaining a devoted disc-to-disc audience, 311 fans are absolutely fanatical. So much so that thousands of them have crossed the country to cele …