Category: Artists

Every once in a while, an artist comes along whose talent is so undeniable that it inspires everyone who encounters it. British singer and songwriter Leona Lewis is such an artist. Her striking beauty, charmingly down-to-earth personality, and huge, soaring voice has taken over the UK, where her debut Spirit entered the album chart at…

Since their debut in 1999, Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry have been a cornerstone of the most important movement in country music since the Outlaws. Just as Waylon, Willie and the rest kicked open the genre’s doors in the 1970s, Montgomery Gentry has helped kick-start 21st century country. The elements consist of straightforward lyrics reflecting…

Maybe there’s just a feeling something is missing. It’s hard to pin down, difficult to articulate; a matter of lying in bed at night, kept awake by a mysterious yearning for more Wallace Stevens quotes set to low-down combustible grooves. Maybe it’s a sudden desire to hear words like “myxamatoid” and “spraddle” deployed in popular…

The Shania Twain story has opened on a new and exciting chapter, and the only way is UP! That’s the title of the much anticipated follow-up to Come On Over, the most successful female solo artist album of all time with world wide sales of an astonishing 34 million. Follow that? You bet. The great…

Though my real name is Charlene Keys, I’ve been nicknamed Tweet ever since I can remember. Everyone in my family wants credit for coming up with that, but no one knows where it came from. What I do know is that it stuck, and in many ways, it fits perfectly. Born in Rochester, N.Y. to…

You can call him the fastest MC in hip-hop history, the man with the flawless flow or simply the Chi-Town legend. Twista’s earned all his accolades and can breathe one huge sigh of relief with 2004 behind him. After year’s of building one of rap’s most loyal street following and accumulating immeasurable respect among his…

What more can you say about the greatest songs ever written? Nothing, really: it’s best just to have them sung, and sung well. That’s exactly what Steve Tyrell did on his acclaimed 1999 album A New Standard, which matched the vocalist with seventeen classic American songs. That album went on defy the skeptics, having now…

Theoretically, for a recording artist to reach the summit of his profession, hard work, total dedication, enormous talent, and an unstoppable will to succeed are essential. When sizzling sensuality, dark, handsome features, a chiseled hard body, intelligence, charisma, and a soulful, passionate, show-stopping voice are added to the equation, the sky’s the limit — the…

“We like to refer to ourselves as classic rock for the 21st century,” states Brian Youmans, Trinket’s flamboyant lead singer. While Trinket formed in Athens, Georgia, three of their members are from New Jersey (Tommy Salmon, J. Christopher Arrison and Jeffrey Fisher). Their development in the city known as a hot bed for college bands…

No man is an island, and everything seems to take a village these days. In the case of TRUSTcompany, it seemingly took a nation to put together their major-label debut, The Lonely Position of Neutral, one of the most exciting rock debuts of the year (the single TK is already getting TK at radio even…