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With his invigorating hit single “Day ’n’ Nite” and the ambitious debut concept album “Man on the Moon: The End of Day,” Cleveland-born, Brooklyn-based rapper Kid Cudi, known to his mom as Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi, instantly marked himself as one of the most imp

 No one ever will be able to fault that underrated local treasure Scott Lucas for a lack of ambition. Last year, during a bit of downtime with Local H, his long-running, melodic hard-rock duo with drummer Brian St.

Los Angeles really seems to agree with Stuart Murdoch and the Belle and Sebastian gang.

A decade into the new millennium, could there possibly be a hoarier concept in all of popular music than the rafters-rattling, lighters-inspiring arena-rock band?Though Bono, Mick Jagger, and their $350-a-ticket ilk will be the last ones in the tar pit to admit it, the music world has become a more

For rock fans who cut their teeth in a certain era of Black Sabbath/Deep Purple sturm und drang—and even more so for rock critics—fawning over the third album by Canadian stoner/psychedelic/heavy-metal mavens Black Mountain almost qualifies as a sad cliché.

Aside from the vast back catalog, which remains one of the richest in rock history, and his astounding energy as a live performer, which persists even as he approaches his 65th birthday next month, the most inspiring thing about Neil Young is that he differs from so many of the other legends of his

Nine studio albums into a career that began in Glasgow, Scotland, way back at the dawn of the '90s, and which provided one of the enduring masterpieces of that decade with the timeless, endlessly chiming, Big Star-inspired power-pop of "Bandwagonesque," it is all too easily to take Teenage