Category: Artists

This is me. This record is me. Every song is me. You’re going to see who I really am and not what the tabloids say or whatever anyone has to say about me.” That’s quite a statement for any artist to make, especially on the eve of the release of just her debut album. But…

In 2005, Louisiana-born and North Carolina-raised singer Kellie Pickler landed a spot in the fifth season of American Idol. Though she finished sixth, the former waitress and Miss North Carolina contestant charmed American audiences with her Southern twang and blonde ambition, resulting in a contract with BNA Records that yielded her debut album, Small Town…

Pink, at only 19, is a young woman with the experience of many lifetimes, I’m a very extreme person. I went through a lot of phases growing up, and for every one, I was extreme, confides Pink, the latest R&B/pop artist to emerge from the hugely successful, LaFace Records camp. From skateboarder to hip-hopper to…

Pink Floyd are the premier space-rock band. Since the mid-’60s, their music has relentlessly tinkered with electronics and all manner of special effects to push pop formats to their outer limits. At the same time they have wrestled with lyrical themes and concepts of such massive scale that their music has taken on almost classical,…

From the very beginning, Brooklyn’s Piston have sought to challenge themselves and through constant composing and relentless touring, the quartet have skillfully crafted an unstoppable machine that quivers at nothing. Emotion dwells at the core of this determined band and for the many who have already come in contact, the pleasure is grand. Now things…

Can you envision the perfect mc? Would he/she be hardcore, conscious, funny, clever? What type of flow would he/she kick: laidback, ferocious, melodic? In 1994 five Brooklyn cats were building on this exact question, and decided that one person could never fully embody hip-hop. Only a group could perfectly express the culture, and thus Pitch…

Over the past decade Placebo have slowly but surely grown into one of the biggest and best rock bands on the globe. Meds is Placebo’s first studio album since 2003’s Sleeping With Ghosts, which went Top 10 in the UK, sold 1.4 million copies worldwide and firmly re-established the band’s foothold in the USA. In…

David Allen Stewart, often known as Dave Stewart (born September 9, 1952 in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England), is a British musician and record producer best known as a member of the rock duo Eurythmics. In 1971, whilst still in his teens, he secured a record deal on Elton John’s Rocket Records label as part…

Bass: John Myung Drums: Rod Morgenstein Keyboards: Derek Sherinian Vocals, Guitar, and Percussion: Ty Tabor Dr. Frankenstein could never have conceived a beast as proud and surprisingly musical as the brave Platypus. No, this small, aquatic, egg-laying monotreme mammal could only be the handiwork of a bunch of rock legends with a penchant for the…

LONG before their remarkable 143/Atlantic Records debut, “THE PROMISE,” went gold, Plus One sang like a band, their vocals testifying to a truly distinctive ensemble power. These days, after two years on the road, they look, act, and even laugh like a band. Together, Nate Cole, Jason Perry, Jeremy Mhire, Nathan Walters and Gabe Combs…