Andy Downing

Singer/guitarist Marnie Stern's evaluation of her discography sounds a bit like Goldilocks reviewing porridge."With the first record I thought, 'Oh, it's too experimental,'" she said. "With the second record I...

Growing up, Dallas-born, Nashville-raised singer-songwriter Caitlin Rose initially rebelled against her country roots. Well, maybe "rebellion" is too strong a term."As a teenager I'd tell my parents, 'I'm going to...

Try as he might, Mario Cuomo, singer for rising garage-rock quintet the Orwells, can't seem to avoid trouble. His high school years essentially were a string of missed classes and...

Much like Amy and Nick, the fractured married couple at the center of Gillian Flynn's breakout novel "Gone Girl," the author herself is good at keeping secrets.In recent months, rumors...

Throughout nearly a decade, Scattered Trees evolved from a solo project into a full-on, major label-signed band, so it was with some reservation that founder and frontman Nate Eiesland pulled...

While "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" has certainly made an effective tourism campaign, Imagine Dragons refrained from adopting the slogan as a band mantra.Since forming in 2008, the...

Sometimes it really does pay to have friends in high places. For more than seven years, musician/artist Lady Starlight, born Colleen Martin, has been a close confidant of pop icon...

Kelsey Montanez, who got her start performing in local coffee shops at age 14, never envisioned herself auditioning for TV singing competitions like "American Idol" or "The Voice," saying, "That...

While singer/guitarist Alan Sparhawk generally has gravitated towards a slower, quieter sound in Low--the Duluth, Minn., trio he's fronted for nearly two decades alongside his wife Mimi Parker--he lets it...

London native Jessie Ware first visited America in 2009 as a backup singer for friend Jack Penate. By the time Ware returned for a second visit last December, she had...