Steve Knopper

Sandra Bernhard makes a correction. She did not cry the first time she tried stand-up comedy at The Improv club in Los Angeles in the late '70s. "I cried once...

On the first night of My Morning Jacket's tour opening for Bob Dylan and Wilco in late June, the headlining rock legend wasn't exactly hanging out in the parking lot,...

Six years ago, when Kevin Jonas was a 19-year-old member of the world's most popular boy band, he said this about his brothers: "It's really amazing being in a band...

The great contradiction of A&M Records, the independent record label that turned Peter Frampton, the Police, Janet Jackson and Soundgarden into superstars, was that the man in charge was an...

The great contradiction of A&M; Records, the independent record label that turned Peter Frampton, the Police, Janet Jackson and Soundgarden into superstars, was that the man in charge was an...

The beret could have been Rickie Lee Jones' symbol. It could have been her brand. But as her 1979 hit "Chuck E.'s in Love" turned Jones into a pop star...

The beret could have been Rickie Lee Jones' symbol. It could have been her brand. But as her 1979 hit "Chuck E.'s in Love" turned Jones into a pop star...

Patrick Stickles, who is not known for his lack of vocal restraint fronting punk-rock band Titus Andronicus, comes on the phone, oddly, speaking just above a whisper. "I should warn...

Patrick Stickles, who is not known for his lack of vocal restraint fronting punk-rock band Titus Andronicus, comes on the phone, oddly, speaking just above a whisper. "I should warn...

In They Might Be Giants, John Flansburgh is Roger Ebert. John Linnell is Gene Siskel. "Sure. Yeah. That's right," says Linnell, who has been collaborating with Flansburgh since the early...