Songwriters and music artists look for all types of inspiration to help them create captivating lyrics for songs. Some of the topics they choose are versatile, as they can be interpreted in many ways. One…

Formed in 2001 after the break up of singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala and keyboardist Marcel Rodríguez-López’s former band At the Drive In, The Mars Volta rode into town on a wave of progressive sonic experimentation. Their…

Sheryl Crow is an American singer-songwriter who has been around since the late 1980s. On the whole, she has been very successful, as shown by how she has managed to sell more than 50 million…

The Mavericks are probably one of the most dynamic country music bands of all time, largely because they incorporate many additional genres of music into their sound. While they do sing a lot of neo-traditional…

Sarah McLachlan is one of the more notable artists to emerge from Canada in recent decades. For proof, consider the fact that she has managed to sell more than 40 million records over the course…

Some people go straight into their lifetime careers while others take time to realize what they want to do with their lives. This article lists ten famous musicians who served in the military before getting…

When people think of influential musicians, it’s not at all uncommon for one of the individuals who springs almost immediately to mind to include Barry White. A gifted musician as well as a composer, songwriter…

Sonic Youth was formed in 1981. Over the years, they performed a number of shows that encompassed several different genres of music. The band has long since stopped performing together, but over the course of…

If you like rap music, you might be familiar with one of its more prolific artists, Missy Elliott. Active since the mid-1990s, she’s not only a performer, but also a record producer and songwriter. She…