MUSIC CITY WANTED TO MAKE A STAR OF Kelly Willis but she didn’t want to be a Music City kind of star. It’s true, she tried for a while. She released three albums on MCA Nashville in the early ‘90s…

DARK EYES AND HEAVILY PIERCED EYEBROWS frame his tattooed body. A pentagram hangs around his neck. And he’s a practicing witch in the Celtic tradition. Godsmack founder Sully Erna seems to be the perfect frontman for a heavy metal band.…

THE LAND THAT PLAYS BOTH KINDS OF MUSIC – country and western – has spawned its bastard child. Bare Jr. has shown Nashville what a dulcimer sounds like through a distortion pedal. And if support for its tongue-in-cheek Immortal/Epic debut,…

MARVELOUS 3’s FRONTMAN, BUTCH WALKER, may not compare to Jim Carrey, but he has one of the most expressive faces around when he’s onstage: widening his eyes and mouth as he sings, emphasizing certain words to the point where you’d…

ROLLING STONE COVER BOY EMINEM IS exhausted after a busy day of doing press in Toronto. Everyone wants a word with the guy whose album, The Slim Shady LP (Aftermath/ Interscope), casually details rapes and murders. It is warped, vulgar,…