Allison Stewart

Chance the Rapper's most significant new song doesn't even appear on his acclaimed new mixtape, "Coloring Book." On the jazzy, gospel-influenced outtake "Grown A-- Kid," left off the project due...

When violinist Damien Escobar was a 9-year-old kid growing up in Queens, New York, he busked in subways with his brother, Tourie. Both were classical prodigies; Damien Escobar would graduate...

John David Souther wrote or co-wrote some of the most definitive country rock songs of the '70s and '80s, performed by almost all of the genre's defining artists: the Eagles...

There are those who say that "Down in Heaven," the new album from North Side band Twin Peaks, is the group's first grown-up album. They even use adjectives like "professional"...

Before she finally broke through last year, singer-songwriter Tori Kelly had tried everything. When she was in grade school, she appeared on televised talent competitions like "Star Search" and "America's...

Actress-turned-singer Rita Wilson came to music late. She didn't release her first album, the 2012 covers collection "AM/FM," until she was 55, and didn't write her first song until a...

So far, Southern California band Dawes has managed to sell a respectable amount of albums without the benefit of a hit song, or much attention from places like Pitchfork. The...

In its native Japan, One Ok Rock plays arenas. Stadiums, even. In America, where the band released its first English-language album, "35xxxv," last fall, One Ok Rock considers itself fortunate...