Erika Hobart

Who hasn't been to a post-1998 wedding in which the couple danced to Edwin McCain? The saxophone-drenched ballad "I'll Be," in which McCain promises, in essence, never to be a douchebag, granted him the one commercial success he needed to live easy. He's since dropped off the mainstream music radar...

Jewel has had a hell of a musical career for someone barely into her mid-30s. The folk singer-songwriter went from living in a van to MTV stardom in 1995, thanks to her hugely successful debut album, Pieces of You. She then penned a collection of poetry, A Night Without Armor,...

Thanks to Lady Gaga, there's hope for the brave and unabashed pop worshippers still out there. About the middle of last year, a relatively unknown artist born Stefani Germanotta stormed onto the scene, infiltrating the airwaves with tracks that sounded like a mashup of Billy Idol, Madonna, and Peaches spun...