Steve Knopper

At 15, Jonny Lang made a blues album, 1997's "Lie to Me," which went platinum and hit No. 1 on Billboard's New Artist chart. At 17 he made another, "Wander...

If Imagine Dragons' album "Night Visions" could be boiled down to one word, it'd be "claps." "On Top of the World" opens with happy, Motown-style clapping, while "Bleeding Out" is...

Every now and then, Suzanne Vega fires up the Internet to see what "Tom's Diner" has been up to lately. The singer-songwriter first put the "da-deh-da-deh" a cappella track on...

It turns out that being slightly colorblind is a handicap when one is working in marketing and sales for a sign company. "There's people who call the sign company that...

In London, where Ellie Goulding lives, music fans know her for writing genteel pop songs like "Starry Eyed" and applying her pristine high pitch to Elton John's "Your Song." In...

The only bad part of Jessie Ware's 2012 was an encounter with the estate of Big Pun. The British singer-songwriter, who broke out as a future pop star with her...

By the time Grant Hart is finished tinkering with his car, charging his phone and fixing himself a glass of lemonade, he's ready to talk about Milton's "Paradise Lost." The...

At age 12, growing up in Akron, Ohio, James Ingram lingered around the piano with his four siblings while their older brother, Henry, practiced his playing. Henry was an intimidating...

Every time the Japandroids, a boisterous punk-rock band from Vancouver, make a record, conversation in the studio probably goes like this: ENGINEER JESSE GANDER: I want the vocals drier! SINGER...

In "Fatty Boom Boom," the new video by South African shock-rap band Die Antwoord, Lady Gaga is portrayed as a bored tourist in a run-down van being driven through the...