When vocalist Karl Hyde and guitarist Rick Smith failed at their first band - a well-funded new wave act called Freur - the duo didn't quit the business. Hyde, for one, worked with Debbie Harry and Pri …

Listen to Underworld's twitchy treatment of Depeche Mode's "Barrel of a Gun" and your heart just might explode in time with its "Hard Mix" of combustible beats and jackhammer basslines. That's why we t …

OK, so the story's a little familiar: two brothers form a band, bouncing the natural pop tendencies of one member (Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman in this case) off a bed of tightly wound bass lines, v …

A true U.K. vet (U2/the Cure producer Tim Palmer) stepped behind the boards for Switchfoot's sixth effort, a leap-forward of an album called Oh! Gravity.. Unafraid to take risks from beginning t …

Listen to The Waterboys' new-school shanty "Fisherman's Blues" or the sonic schooner "This Is the Sea," and you're skimming the Irish waters on a fleet vessel, the world on the waves at your feet. Call …

Part poet, part priest, part folk-music time traveler, Mike Scott is committed to extracting music from his own obsessive visions. Which means that one minute he's sharing soul-baring songs of belief l …

Una balada exquisita que ilustra el lado mßs sentimental de Joan Sebastian, la exitosa "Eso y Mßs" proviene del disco de 2006 Mßs Allß del Sol. "25 Rosas" tiene el ritmo tfpico de la quebradi …

Una de las grandes virtudes de Ricardo Arjona es su habilidad para desafiar las rfgidas convenciones morales de la sociedad latinoamericana a travTs de canciones progresivas como "Desnuda" y "Se±ora de …

"Little" Jimmy Scott - so known due to a genetic malfunction that kept him a pre-pubescent, both in stature and in vocal timbre - may be the most distinctive stylist in his genre since Billie Holiday.  …