Allison Stewart

Palestinian-Canadian rapper Ahmad Balshe, who goes by Belly, was famous in his adopted homeland for years before he helped contribute six songs to his friend the Weeknd's 2015 breakthrough release,...

Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale understands that you might not be rooting for him. He and ex-wife Gwen Stefani, sometime frontwoman of No Doubt, divorced last year, after 20 years together....

Two years ago, Anthony Raneri, frontman of the Long Island, N.Y.-based punk band Bayside, went through a painful divorce, which he chronicled in real time on "Vacancy," the band's latest...

British trio The xx played Coachella a few weeks back, on the same night Radiohead's headlining set was plagued by technical difficulties. "I felt bad for them," says Jamie xx...

Singer-songwriter Jason Narducy formed his first group, a punk band named Verboten, in Evanston when he was 10 years old: Dave Grohl's cousin Tracy was the singer, and they played...

Marty Casey is the once and future frontman of Lovehammers, the hard rock band he formed with childhood friends in the southwest suburb of Hickory Hills. Casey, 43, is also...

It was 40 years ago last Thanksgiving that the Band threw itself a farewell concert at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. "The Last Waltz" was a sprawling, legendary affair...

Bastille is one of Britain's biggest bands, with two No. 1 albums in the U.K. (including the band's newest, "Wild World"), and a string of hits that includes the international...

Percussionist Nate Werth and drummer Robert "Sput" Searight spent more than a decade helping to build Snarky Puppy from a local Dallas jazz group to a repeat-Grammy-winning, fiercely beloved jazz-funk...

Big Daddy Kane is, arguably, as good a rapper as has ever been, a fast-rhyming pioneer from the genre's halcyon early days. Born Antonio Hardy and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y.,...