Category: Music

When Built To Spill wanted to find out what their music sounded like they locked themselves in Doug Martsch’s garage. Without a tentative conclusion or even a hypothesis the four members began to experiment. Their collaborative efforts lasted seasons and yielded dozens of hours of ADAT tape. The album You In Reverse documents the newest…

Meredith Brooks’ fans have come to expect the kind of emotional honesty and psychological intimacy found on her new Capitol Records album, Deconstruction. It’s the same directness she put to remarkable effect on her ’97, multi-platinum debut Blurring The Edges, and its global hit, “Bitch,” which garnered Brooks a pair of Grammy nominations and introduced…

Palo Alto: known for being the home of Stanford, a school whose reputed academic excellence and whose football team’s ceremonious trips to the Rose Bowl garner yearly national acclaim for it and its geographic resting place. Notorious for its now mythical Silicon Valley (where cybergeeks have taken over with Internet start-ups that leave the average…

It’s just ten minutes from Marc Broussard’s hometown of Carencro, Louisiana to Lafayette. He makes the journey from Lafayette to the heights of the music world seem equally short. Broussard’s high octane take-off uses no formula at all. Instead he offers a blend of abilities, styles and enthusiasms uniquely adapted to himself on his debut…

He’s a lot like the 16-year-old boy living in the house next door to you: one minute he’s five-foot-seven, the next he’s 6’1. One minute he’s a cute little boy trying to dribble a basketball, the next a superstar point guard. One minute he’s ducking under the covers pleading for five more minutes of shut-eye,…

One of the brightest R&B stars of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Bobby Brown was the man who popularized new jack swing, a blend of classic soul, urban synth-funk, and hip-hop rhythms that often featured rap breaks in between the conventionally melodic verses and choruses. Guy’s Teddy Riley may have been new jack’s greatest…

Foxy Brown. Just the name has enough power to stir up conversation. And through all the talk, the 22-year old female has maintained her cool, sitting back quietly waiting for the right moment to release. And now it’s time, Foxy Brown breaks her silence. Foxy Brown’s third LP, aptly titled Broken Silence, finds the controversial…

Ian Brown first started work on his second album, Golden Greats, Christmas Eve 1998. There’s nothing festive or romantic about that date. It’s just that he’d been locked up in jail for the previous sixty days and it was the first day he could get back to his music. If it’s true that he had…

Kaci Brown grew up in Sulphur Springs, TX, and was singing at a very early age. Throughout her youth, she performed across her home state, appearing just about anyplace that would have her. To further her career, her family moved to Nashville in 2001 — remarkably, before attaining a record contract, she had a publishing…

Mr. Brown’s life history contains many triumphs over adversity. He was born in South Carolina during the Great Depression. As a child, he picked cotton, danced for spare change and shined shoes. At 16, he landed in reform school for three years where he met Bobby Byrd, leader of a gospel group and life-long friend.…