Dave Matthews Band, also referred to as DMB, is a rock band formed in 1991 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Guitarist and lead singer-songwriter Dave Matthews founded the band with bassist Stefan Lessard, violinist and backing vocalist Boyd Tinsley, drummer and backing vocalist Carter Beauford, and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. However, there have been changes to Dave Matthews…
In 1968, James Taylor released his self-titled debut. No one noticed. A year later, he released its follow-up, Sweet Baby James. This time around, the whole world noticed. Suddenly, Taylor was the central figure in the ascendant singer-songwriter movement, a status he consolidated with the album’s follow-up, Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon. Half…
Pearl Jam is, without a doubt, one the best alternative rock band to have emerged in the late 1980s. The group, led by vocalist Eddie Vedder and guitarist Stone Gossard, has been crafting searing songs for decades now. They’re not only full today, but these tuneful purveyors have maintained an unbroken relevance throughout. The band…
At the age of 16 years old, Justin Bieber became the youngest artist to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since Stevie Wonder topped the charts in 1963. In the years since, he’s shed his tween idol image and emerged as a serious, if controversial, artist. The intense media interest around him has…
If there was ever a singer who knew how to weave a good tale, it was country artist Tom T. Hall. His sharp observations and ability to find the extraordinary in the mundane won him the nickname of “the storyteller,” not to mention 12 No. 1 hit singles, a series of awards, and a place…
Some bands make very good careers out of repeating the same album over and over again. R.E.M. made a similarly good career out of never making the same album twice. Over 15 albums, they touched on everything from post-punk to jangly pop, low-fi to glam rock. It’s something that always made them incredibly exciting to…
The legacy of the Doors may have been overshadowed by the death of their frontman, Jim Morrison, at the age of 27, but without them, classic rock would be a very different thing. Between 1967 and 1971, the Doors released six studio albums. Not all of them are masterpieces, but they each contain enough gems…
Smokey Robinson served as the founder and frontman of the Miracles for almost 20 years, eventually leaving the group to pursue his career as both a solo artist and Motown’s vice president in 1972. His contributions to music, whether as a singer, a writer, or a record producer are hard to overstate. Described by Bob…
Evanescence is a rock band that was founded in 1995 in Little Rock, Arkansas. The two founding band members are singer, keyboardist, and pianist Amy Lee and Ben Moody, a guitarist. In 2002, the band released their first album, ‘Fallen,’ followed by a second album three years later. After a three-year break, Evanescence came back…