It's the most wonderful time of the year - the time when it is impossible to round a corner without running into another list - and we at The Minnesota Daily plan to spare you no pain. We are not going...

Although 65-year-old jazz composer Andrew Hill says he feels "blessed to have a continuation with music," it is his listeners who are truly blessed. Since learning to play the piano at age 13, Hill has...

In support of her seventh album, "Scarlet's Walk," piano maven Tori Amos captivated a full audience at Northrop Auditorium on Saturday night. Backed by bassist Jon Evans and Matt Chamberlain on drums,...

He has a "new" hit song on radio stations around the world and the corresponding music video is consistently one of MTV's most requested. He's the subject of not one, but two best-selling books. He's got...

For all of us bleeding-heart-liberal college students who have been in a blurry haze of depression, frustration and rage for the past few weeks sparked by Sen. Paul Wellstone's death and prolonged by the...

Everything anyone thinks they know about The Residents ought to preface it with the phrase "alleged." In stark contrast to our celebrity-obsessed times, these mysterious avant-garde jokers cloak themselves...

By all accounts, it appears that the 44-year-old ex-Dead Kennedy front man Jello Biafra needs a hug or three. His indie label Alternative Tentacles is financially strapped after bitter ex-band mates successfully...

A good friend and fellow music-head once assured me, "Brianna, there's no such thing as 'guilty pleasures.' " This was after I awkwardly confessed how addicted I was to the new Enrique Iglesias record,...