Mike Viola onstage in Denmark | Photo by Gitte Gammelgaard After a childhood in Boston and living most of his adult life in NY, Mike Viola has arrived...in LA. We met Mike at a screening of "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" and had the opportunity not only to watch the film but hear about how Mike an...

Hey, it's a list! Let's argue about it? Esquire has published an "unranked, incomplete, yet highly tasteful and informative" rundown of 75 long-players that "every man should own" with the usual bite-sized commentary the magazine devotes to these sort of lists. (Symphony No. 5 is "Beethoven at his m...

Top 1000 greatest (Q-Music.be) 2008 1. BRYAN ADAMS - SUMMER OF '69 2. QUEEN - BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY 3. GUNS 'N' ROSES - NOVEMBER RAIN 4. METALLICA - NOTHING ELSE MATTERS 5. U2 - ONE 6. ROBBIE WILLIAMS - ANGELS 7. AC/DC - THUNDERSTRUCK 8. DEEP PURPLE - CHILD IN TIME 9. NIRVANA - SMELLS LIKE T...

From Johnny B, whose intro I'm also purloining:The title is self-evident, and I'm taking it to mean 25 albums that were most influential in shaping my music-listening tastes for all time. This is, as many have noted, VERY DIFFICULT- mostly because I'm trying to list albums that were truly influentia...

Hello all, I am a piano/organ player looking for a guitarist and a bass man to form a rock group. My friend the drummer is already on board. We've written a number of songs between us but my hope is to collaborate as a group and achieve what those in the biz call "chemistry". If you can sing, I thin...

On stage, she's a siren in a pink catsuit. In person, she is still and self-contained. We met the enigmatic singer at the village pub... Early for our interview, I encounter Polly Jean Harvey in the freezing toilets of a Somerset pub. She is locked in a cubicle, changing outfits and shivering. I dro...

It’s Bloody Stupid Friday so today we ask you Why should the American war criminals George Bush and Dick Chaney walk free ? Thankfully, President Obama DID NOT PARDON BUSH OR CHANEY: therefore they’re fair game for the Special Prosecutor who will hopefully be appointed by our US Attorney...

How many musicians can you match with their real names? 1 Alecia Moore 1 Afrika Bambaataa 2 Alicia Augello Cook 2 Alice Cooper 3 Annie Mae Bullock 3 Alicia Keys 4 Anthony Ray 4 Barry Manilow 5 Arnold George Dorsey I 5 Beck 6 Artis Ivey Jr. 6 Billie Holliday 7 Barry Alan Pincus 7 Billy Idol 8 Bek Dav...

I’ve been following BusinessWeek’s John Byrne since I first got hooked on BW and the Cover Stories podcast in college. John continues to teach me something fresh about the digital space everyday as he updates his Twitter feed and Facebook status with information on what’s happening in editoria...

I've been enjoying the Sundance channel series Spectacle: Elvis Costello With.... It's an interview show in which Costello traces the careers and musical influences of his guests, which so far have included Sir Elton John, Renee Fleming, Herbie Hancock, The Police, and others. Even better, Costello ...