Andy Downing

Shamir Bailey refuses to be pigeonholed. In just a few short years, the Las Vegas-born musician has mutated from a country crooner to a punk rocker (fronting the scrappy, shape-shifting...

"Keep your beady eyes on me," wails Wolf Alice singer/guitarist Ellie Rowsell near the onset of the band's full-length debut, "My Love Is Cool." Fortunately, the London quartet's music makes...

In March 2014, Rita Ora released "I Will Never Let You Down," the planned first single (written and produced by mega DJ Calvin Harris, also known as Taylor Swift's boyfriend)...

Other headliners at this weekend's North Coast Music Festival (held Friday through Sunday in Union Park) certainly will deliver chills, especially soul man D'Angelo and hip-hop house band The Roots....

"Emotion," the new full-length from "Call Me Maybe" singer Carly Rae Jepsen, arrives jammed with catchy synth-pop numbers that easily could soundtrack a modern reboot of the '80s flick "Girls...

During "Lousy Connection," a highlight on Ezra Furman's excellent new full-length "Perpetual Motion People," the Evanston-raised artist, who currently makes his home in Oakland, Calif., sings, "Can you hear me...

Banks wants to make a connection. This is true in both her music — the Los Angeles singer-songwriter's studio debut "Goddess," which surfaced in 2014 awash in electro-tinged avant-R&B, deals...

With its ferocious, guitar-driven sound, Nashville quartet Bully would have sounded right at home performing alongside the likes of Hole and Dinosaur Jr. on the Lollapalooza lineups in the mid-'90s....

Ben Trimble, frontman for rising Nashville, Tenn., psych-rock crew Fly Golden Eagle, has long embraced collaboration, appearing on recordings by Alabama Shakes, Hurray for the Riff Raff and Benjamin Booker....

Stephen Colbert used to boast about the "Colbert bump" benefiting guests who visited "The Colbert Report." Nashville singer-songwriter Kelsea Ballerini, 21, might argue fellow musician Taylor Swift has inherited the...