Category: Artists

Morcheeba are that rare thing: a band to love but also a band that keeps you guessing, that refuse flatly to co-operate with the safe maxims of stasis and repetition that make so much modern pop so damn predictable In 1995, a twelve-inch called “Trigger Hippie” dropped into the world’s lap and slipped under the…

With her unique style and sound, she’s enjoyed hits the world over. Her music is emotional, filled with heartfelt insight, a finely honed pop ingenuity, and an upbeat positivity. Now, after touring the globe, Debelah Morgan is back, where she belongs: home on Atlantic Records and ready to show America what the world already has…

When Alanis Morissette first burst upon the global music scene in the mid-Nineties, she created a truly massive commotion. She did so by dramatically reinventing the role of confessional singer-songwriter for a whole new generation of music lovers. On many levels–sonic, psychic, commercial, and cultural–the impact of Morissette’s 1995 album Jagged Little Pill was tremendous.…

Riff-shredding, ass-shaking, louder-than-life Morningwood is a glorious hodgepodge of personalities, backgrounds and influences — much like their NYC hometown — but that’s where the pigeonholing ends. “There’s an attitude, this balls-to-the-wall feeling, you don’t hear so much in New York these days,” says Morningwood frontwoman Chantal Claret. “At one time there was a grittiness here…

Released last year in the UK, “RETURN OF THE MACK” hit #4 on British album chart, earned the artist four nominations for this year’s prestigious Brit Awards, and is now fast approaching the platinum mark. Now living in London, Morrison made his first appearance on the UK singles chart in 1995 when his single, “Crazy,”…

A Biography by Alan Stout They’ve been widely successful, frequently controversial and extremely influential. They’re one of the most celebrated American hard-rock bands of all-time, and they’ve constantly forged forward with new sounds, new looks and new attitudes. They are a band that defines both musicianship and showmanship. A band that – despite being equally…

When 15-year-old MoZella failed to land a coveted role in her high school play, the Detroit native decided it was time to take her career into her own hands. With the stubborn determination that only a teen can muster, MoZella (who had fallen out the previous year with the members of her folk-rock garage band…

Eric Martin * Billy Sheehan * Pat Torpey * Richie Kotzen “Y’know, you get lemons, you make lemonade. It’s something I say to myself a lot: “Just get over it.” – Eric Martin Any true hiatus has a beginning, middle, and end… And for Mr. Big, it was time for their two-year sabbatical to come…

Conceived 15 years ago in a part of Northern California that is knows as the nation’s capitol of heartburn, domestic violence and testicular cancer, Mr. Bungle has overcome these obstacles and, in fact, embraced their Humboldt County roots as the catalyst for their dark, irregular, forbidding music. Originally founded as a death metal quartet donning…

During Moist’s third full-length recording, Mercedes Five And Dime, the Montreal-based five-piece was frequently referred to as “the five-headed beast”, says guitarist Mark Makoway with a smirk. That was the easiest way for producer David Leonard (Barenaked Ladies, Prince) to describe what it was like working twelve hours a day, seven days a week for…