With the success of such genre-busting artists as Beck it suddenly became okay to let many musical styles seep into your sound -- rap funk punk folk blues folk and so on 2001 saw the self-titled debut release from Leroy and upon first listen its obvi…

Cuban-American singersongwriter Nil Lara spent most of his childhood in Venezuela where he learned both English and Spanish while attending a local institute called Washington Academy In addition a small guitar known as cuatro became his major inspir…

As the singer guitarist and main songwriter of Australias Men at Work Colin Hay was responsible for penning several of the quirkiest pop hits of the early 80s Although he and his former band will forever be associated with the land down under Hay ori…