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…

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…

MOVE OVER NASHVILLE. Big House is proving once again that Bakersfield, Calif., is quite the spawning ground for fine country musicians. The Central Valley town may be small but it's home to country music legends Merle Haggard and Buck Owens.…

A&M RECORDING ARTIST Jonny Lang combines fire-in-the-belly blues with a fresh new perspective. His major label debut, Lie to Me, seamlessly combines originals with classic blues covers revealing what some call an old soul in the body of a teenager.…

CIBO MATTO (cheebo mätto) has an impeccable NYC pedigree. While bandmates Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori are originally from Japan, they are now Big Apple gals. They met in New York and their sound is absolutely a product of East…

THE JAZZY SOUL SOUND ofJamiroquai recently started impacting in the U.S. and thanks to a heavy rotation slot on MTV, it is provoking a swell of curiosity. Those looking beyond top 40 – beyond grunge, hip-hop and alternapop – already…

BLOODHOUND GANG frontman Jimmy Pop is so over-the-top in his political incorrectness, even Bill Maher must be impressed. He practices equal opportunity offensiveness; he gores all sacred cows. Pop riffs on blacks, whites, Asians, gays and straights, the mentally impaired,…