Madeleine Peyroux, from cobblestones to concert halls
In lieu of attending high school classes in Paris, Madeleine Peyroux fled to the streets, singing with jazz buskers in the Latin Quarter. "I always said, 'I'm going to get...
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Rapper Vince Staples is a mass of seeming contradictions
Hip-hop star Vince Staples' new single, "BagBak," has sharp electronic production, clearly influenced by dance music and contemporary DJs, which he hasn't shown much of in breakthrough albums such as...
Panic! At the Disco steps out of the shadows — again
A few years ago, Brendon Urie of Panic! At the Disco became so isolated that he refused to leave his house. "It wasn't necessarily depression," the 29-year-old singer says. "I...
Devendra Banhart happy to be reveling in music
Many years ago, Devendra Banhart slept nightly on a mattress in a dumpster in New York City. It was during a bedbug scare, when his neighbors had thrown their beds...
Lee Fields is a forward-looking throwback
On the cover of Lee Fields' album "Let's Talk It Over," the soul singer poses in a bell-bottomed, black-and-white leisure suit that is extraordinary even by 1979 standards — the...
Lou Gramm has done everything he wanted to do
By day, Lou Gramm's father reported to work at 7 a.m. at a Rochester, N.Y., steel plant, so he could cut metal sheets to size for desks and filing cabinets....
The Monkees’ Mickey Dolenz still gives the crowd what it wants
Unlike Peter Tork, who brought a bass guitar into the studio for Monkees recordings, Micky Dolenz had no problem with the idea of being a fake musician. He was an...
Burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese achieves a greatness of her own
At 4 years old, Heather Sweet of tiny West Branch, Mich., did not see herself as a burlesque dancer who would take off her clothes and bathe in a giant...
Ray Benson and Dale Watson geek out together
At one point during "Bus' Breakdown," a duet with his old friend Dale Watson, singer Ray Benson takes a mouthful of air and spews out "alternator, generator, transmission, radiator, alternator...
Into It. Over It. isn’t and never will be
Every now and then, somebody shows up to an Into It. Over It. show looking creepily like Evan Weiss — thick glasses, neatly trimmed beard, red-and-black lumberjack shirt. And it's...