Category: Music

Born in Akron, Ohio and now living in New York City, Joseph Arthur is an artist that lives by making music…and what music he makes! As if possessing a window into your soul, his lyrics propel you into reflection; his awkwardly confident approach sneaks into your psyche, and find yourself uncontrollably drawn towards his tales…

Hailing from Virginia, Artful Dodger was a tuneful working-man’s band that had a brief run of success in the late ’70s. In classic power pop style, the group combined hard-driving electric guitars with catchy arrangements and harmonies. But where the Raspberries emphasized balladry and romanticism, and Big Star had both that plus lyricism, Artful Dodger…

Art Of Noise first appeared to appear in 1983, with a song in their heart, a beat in their soul, and an ignition key in their hand. Formed at a time when the reverberations of punk, post-punk and new wave could still be felt, they were determined to be a different kind of group, a…

It’s 1996, and some hungry young bloods named Art N’ Soul are circling the music industry, ready to touch down and leave their mark. They’re Tracy (keyboards, bass), Dion (drums), and Lattrel (keyboards, drums), three singer/musician/songwriters with a knack for delivering silky soul with a slippery hip-hop feel. Their debut album, “TOUCH OF SOUL ,”…

Louis Armstrong was born in a poor section of New Orleans known as “the Battlefield” on August 4, 1901. By the time of his death in 1971, the man known around the world as Satchmo was widely recognized as a founding father of jazz – a uniquely American art form. His influence, as an artist…

If anyone can claim to have had their career choice in some way chosen for them, it’s Aqualung’s Matt Hales; born above his parents Southampton independent record store, with a piano dominating the front room, he was writing songs by the age of 4. By 11 he’d been commissioned to compose his school Song (the…

Pop quiz: You have conquered all the territories on Planet Earth from the United States to Asia. You have provided millions of young fans around the world with one of the most successful debut pop albums ever. What do you do? Well, either you sit back and congratulate yourself, or you face the new challenge…

Written by Robert Schneider Our band started in 1992. I (Robert S.) had just moved to Denver in late ’91 and I met this guy Jim McIntyre on the local commuter bus from Denver to Boulder, where we both attended university. I (being, according to Jim at the time, pathologically friendly) chatted with him daily…

“With the songs, the writing, the work in the studio,” Fiona Apple says, “this time it was a lot more me-an uninhibited me, a confident me.” She’s talking, with justifiable pride, of her new album: When The Pawn Hits The Conflicts He Thinks Like A King What He Knows Throws The Blows When He Goes…

In a decade that has seen electronic music grow to reach a global audience, Apollo Four Forty have always managed to stay at the forefront of dance and club culture. Founded in Liverpool in 1990 by core members Noko and brothers Howard and Trevor Gray, Apollo Four Forty has been making classic dance tracks since…