Every musical movement needs an icon, whether it's a pretty face, a pouty pair of lips or a Warhol portrait. Jagger sashayed his way to the forefront of the British invasion. Cash flipped his middle finger...

A penetrating scar marks the right arm of Sweet J.A.P. vocalist Sho Nikido. When asked about the gash, he jokes, "I saved Takashi's life," nudging his band mate. Takashi Obu reveals a welt of his own,...

It's easy to tag Jeff Tweedy's scoring of the Ethan Hawke "verité" Chelsea Walls as post-Mancini. Though unlike, say, "Moon River", this Tweedy work holds little value outside the chassis of cinema;...

"His sister got us into [Chicago venue] The Empty Bottle when we were 15 because she knew the Grifters," recounts Malachi Constant vocalist Carl Wedoff of high school friend and bandmate Ben Hecker. His...

Not a great deal of prodding was necessary to get Minnesota football players Dan Nystrom and Preston Gruening to flat-out admit they're not playing up to their abilities this season. "I need to make some...