EXCLUDING THE 10 YEARS she struggled as a singer/songwriter in Nashville, Lee Ann Womack looks to be one of country music’s newest overnight successes. Decca Records had to push up the release of her self-titled album earlier this year because…

FOR A TIME, Sister Hazel was known as the hardest working band in Gainesville. The catch phrase was only relevant for awhile though, not because the Florida band slacked off or other groups started working even harder, it’s just that…

IT'S STORMING IN CHICAGO. Sugar Ray is on stage groovin' for a crowd of dedicated fans at "The Warped Tour." Just as the band is ending its hit single, "Fly," a bolt of lightening hits the stage to punctuate the…

PAULA COLE HAS A VOICE that can wrap around a lyric and caress it one second and bludgeon it to death the next. Fortunately, she's chosen to use her formidable talents in a positive way because those vocal chords are…

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…