Mazzy Star, the ethereal duo of Hope Sandoval and the late David Roback, quietly emerged from Los Angeles in the late ’80s, crafting a hypnotic
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In the late 1980s, 3rd Bass were regarded as the Def Jam label’s next “great white hopes.” However, reductively assigning emcees the caliber of MC
Neil Diamond had nothing left to prove in 2005. But with the late-career classic 12 Songs, he proved it anyway. By now Diamond had been
When filmmaker Marty DiBergi joined veteran UK rockers on their tour to promote their misunderstood masterpiece, Smell The Glove, he could never have imagined the
Two and a half years after they made their chart debut, and with no fewer than eight Top 40 singles to their name, The Jam
The Police’s debut album, Outlandos D’Amour, boasts an enviable reputation. Widely regarded as one of New Wave’s key records, it’s racked up multi-platinum sales since
A new century, a new sound and new records to be broken. A whole lot was happening in U2’s world in 2000, but most of
Born in New Zealand and raised in Australia, Keith Urban is one of the most prominent and successful examples of country music’s international reach while
One day in 1983, Charly Garcia and his friend and fellow Argentine musician Pedro Aznar knocked on the door of Electric Lady in New York’s
By anyone’s standards, Billy Idol’s solo rise to fame was highly impressive. Leaving the U.K. after his initial punk outfit, Generation X, split in the