Allison Moorer

Most of Moorer's songs have always explored life's darker side, which is understandable; when she was a teenager, her father murdered her mother and then took his own life. On...

Susan Werner and the Hatfield Pops

Boston-bred folkie Susan Werner vies for contention via a new American anthem, one reflecting the sad state of our nation. With a theatrical delivery bolstered by solo piano...

Green Velvet

The insistent bomp of crunk meets a disco beat and is tempered by techno's distanced cool. Green Velvet shares the anthemic tendencies of label mates Tiefschwarz, but this...

Kenny Garrett

Few musicians create such universal music as does Kenny Garrett. Throughout a nearly 30-year career, multi-Grammy nominee and alto saxophonist Garrett has performed with jazz...

Demonic Domain

You can imagine how seriously Demonic Domain's songwriter/guitarist takes his death-metal band when you find out his name is D. Mon. But maybe, as a member of a barely...

Bandleader, singer, composer, trombonist, Grammy winner, political activist, and living legend Willie Colón has done it all. He cut his first album, El Malo, at the age...

RBD

RBD's bandmates began as stars on the Mexican teen soap opera Rebelde before releasing their debut of the same title. The album went platinum, with more than 500,000 sales in...

Th' Legendary Shack-Shakers

Frontman J.D. Wilkes has always thought of fiery Pentecostal preachers as true Southern punks, what with their charismatic showmanship and fear-for-your-lives ranting....

The Samples

Few bands bridge the divide between instrumental proficiency and sharply crafted songwriting as deftly as the Samples. Long before the term jam band was coined — way back...

Mirror Mirror

On its first major tour, Chicago's Mirror Mirror will be bringing some mellower metal to Miami. "We call it melodic metal core," says singer Brandon Butler of his band's...