"You can't go experimenting with the colours from different rainbows if you haven't got that base there in the first place to support it all...

Thrust into the spotlight at the tender age of 20, Arctic Monkeys had the potential to seize the opportunity or let it fall through their fi...

Kylie Minogue doesn't make trends so much as ride them. Like fellow cultural icon Madonna (forever the female pop singer ideal), the pint-si...

Kylie Minogue has always forged her own pop path. From TV actor to teen pop star to international phenom, she's survived commercial flops, t...

It's been 30 years since Scarborough natives Steven Page and Ed Robertson teamed up, and out of desperation, named their project Barenaked L...

Belle and Sebastian's career is the ultimate underdog story. When they formed in Glasgow in the mid-'90s, they were a group of misfits and w...

For the past 30 years, Barenaked Ladies have been a fixture in Canadian music by combining jokes, inescapable hooks and an endless abundance...

The Juno Awards will celebrate Canadian music in Vancouver this year, where a wealth of deserving nominees, including Daniel Caesar, Charl...

At first glance, Belle and Sebastian seem like a genial bunch. Their music is sensitive and pretty, they're affable on stage and charming in...

In their April 2005 issue, Alternative Press published "Bringing It Back: AP's Hardcore Special." Only two of the 16 featured bands are stil...

Converge are in the unique position of being "a high school band that never broke up," as guitarist Kurt Ballou told Berklee College of Musi...

In many ways, Wyclef Jean is the personification of the American dream; he grew up impoverished in his native Haiti and became a multi-milli...

Thirty years ago, there was a chance – albeit, a small one – that Tori Amos would build a career out of becoming, in her words, a "vapid bim...

On September 8, Tori Amos will release her 15th solo album, Native Invader. In getting to this point, the acclaimed singer-songwriter has fa...

Though his melancholic lyrics may say otherwise, Jeff Tweedy is a man who can't sit still. Over the last three decades, he pioneered the alt...

From their inception, At the Drive-In were never a band built to last. Formed by singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Jim Ward in 1993,...

As one of rap music's most celebrated artists, Tauheed "2 Chainz" Epps is the embodiment of second chances — two lives, two names, two caree...

A decade before the Gallagher brothers were making headlines for their sibling rivalry, William and Jim Reid had already established that th...

Pharrell Williams is a force of nature: a producer, songwriter, recording artist, composer, designer and influencer who's left an indelible...

Korn are equally celebrated and derided as nu-metal originators. Born out of a love of both metal and hip-hop, combining the former's aggres...