Alfred L. Smith

Start out with aggressive guitar playing, throw in lyrics about relationships, then finish it off with complex musical arrangements that require two to three listens to absorb, and you've got yourself A Perfect Circle, a monster of a band -- or Frankenstein's monster, if you consider how it is put...

Prince is out to reinvent himself yet again. His new album, N.E.W.S. , is a collection of four jazz instrumental tracks performed live with several members of his long-time backing band New Power Generation at his Paisley Park Studios in Minneapolis. The end result is a 56-minute genre-crossing concept album...