Joshua Klein

They say the clothes make the man, but in rock and roll, the clothes help make the band, too. Where would rock be without those flamboyant form-fitting outfits? What about...

In the new Judd Apatow movie "This Is 40," Graham Parker plays a slightly past his prime British rocker, reunited with his old band and trying to sell a new...

"Hope I die before I get old." Pete Townshend will never escape those fantastically fatalistic words he wrote - and Roger Daltrey first sang - nearly 50 years ago. There...

An icon by any standard, and a local legend on top of that, Mavis Staples' status would be secure if she never sang another note. It's been to our collective...

Not every band is destined for greatness, and not every great band is destined for success. The dB's were surely great, but success somehow eluded the group right up to...

It's a double-edged sword when discussion of a musician drifts away from music to other matters, particularly money. Case in point: Amanda Palmer, who recently raised well over a million...

As the ultimate little band that could and did, Death Cab for Cutie went from sweating it out in vans and clubs to coming as close as any indie rock...

In mathematics, the letter "x" is typically used as a placeholder for something that is not there. Fitting, then, that the London trio the xx should enlist the variable as...

The seven, sometimes eight, members of Tucson's Calexico fit snugly on the small stage at a sold out Lincoln Hall Monday night, cluttered as it was with drum kits, vibraphone,...