WITHIN 12 WEEKS after Third Eye Blind's debut record hit the streets, the band found itself playing to more than 300,000 people at the Blockbuster RockFest show in Texas. That kind of coup can be seen as a hit-song driven…

ONE DOESN'T USUALLY think of solo piano as a medium for pop music. For that reason, Jim Brickman didn't have much of an example to follow when he tried to make his way into the music industry with his brand…

WHILE ENJOYING A RECENT ROUND of golf, David Kersh had an unpleasant flashback. He was momentarily transported back to life before hordes of fans came to see his shows every night, before he had a contract with Curb Records, before…

THE MEMBERS of Matchbox 20 – Rob Thomas, Kyle Cook, Adam Gaynor, Brian Yale and Paul Doucette – are set to have one hell of a summer and they have an attitude that is cool enough to enjoy it. The…

TYPE O NEGATIVE 's haunting, passionate rock flows from the streets of Brooklyn, N.Y., like blood from the brokenhearted. Bandmates Peter Steele and Josh Silver grew up a few blocks from one another and they met guitarist Kenny Hickey and…