Twenty years ago, Albert Mazibuko had a hard time getting to a gig in his home nation of South Africa. At the time, the country was under apartheid, a government-instituted practice of racial segr  

Despite constant media reports that a majority of Americans disagree with the Iraq War, it hasn't seeped into art and music the way the Vietnam War did. Today's Pop music doesn't really have   

You know that old saying about how you can't keep a good man down? Meet Frank Black. When he disbanded the wildly influential Pixies, he didn't sit around and wish for a return to the salad day  

Bettye LaVette is delighted when she's told that I listened to her new album, the soul-baring I've Got my Own Hell to Raise, at 3 a.m. "Ooo, that's good," she exclaims over the phone from h  

When you think of "Rock band," the word "normal" probably doesn't pop into your head. But that word best describes singer Roddy Woomble and his Scottish Rock band, Idlewild. I mean, come on -