The world’s introduction to Avril Lavigne was far from run-of-the-mill, and more in the realm of discovering a wunderkind in 2002. “Complicated,” her first single and music video, ran down the details of young...

Judy Chaikin’s spectacularly sassy film, The Girls in the Band, showcasing the women who learned how to toot their own horn when their male counterparts said no, should be an inspiration to female musicians...

A Mama Rosin concert is nothing less than a party; a party spent taking in the rhythmic swell of the accordion, the euphoric hoots of fans and musicians alike, and the singers’ boisterous, feedback-filled vocals...

In the 21st century’s instantaneous world of social networks, fads can come and go within a single afternoon. The same applies to celebrity; no matter what your claim to fame, no one is...

Passion is the fuel of the soul; it drives you to attempt and achieve the impossible. When the odds seem to be stacked against you, it is ambition and emotion that regroups, refocuses and reenergizes you. Passion is...

“I give The Stones about another two years.” Mick Jagger deserves credit for a lot of things, but prescience is not one of them, as evidenced by this declaration made in 1963, the year after the ensemble’s debut...

Certain evenings in the mountain-ringed Alpine city of Grenoble, France, one can step away from the cobblestoned street into a narrow establishment called Café Bayard, which seems to have been literally squeezed by its...

For subway commuters in New York City and other cities around the world, subterranean musicians are a near-constant presence. These performers range in age, race, and talent. They play everything from the classical...

Already a pillar in the pantheon of electronic musicians, British artist Tom Jenkinson, better known to fans as Squarepusher has returned. He never left, but his shape shifting style and crossovers into different...

I wasn’t at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival this year, but I can imagine the crowd full of wide eyes and open mouths as Tupac Shakur appeared on stage during Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s closing set....