Dos Monos　

Pat Benatar　

Pat Benatar’s polished mainstream pop/rock made her one of the more popular female vocalists of the early ’80s. Although she came on like an arena rocker with her power chords, tough sexuality, and ..more

Blue Oyster Cult　

Blue Oyster Cult was the thinking man’s heavy metal group. Put together on a college campus by a couple of rock critics, it maintained a close relationship with a series of literary figures ( ..more

Katy Perry　

Brandishing a wink, a coo, and cleavage with the aplomb of an assassin, Katy Perry created a distinctly new millennial pop persona： a Disney princess as imagined by Madonna. Flirty and bodacious ..more

Brinsley Schwarz　

Pub rock, the English roots rock movement of the early ’70s, would never have earned a cult following if it wasn’t for Brinsley Schwarz. Initially, Brinsley Schwarz was a rambling, {\neo-p ..more

Dizzy Gillespie　

Dizzy Gillespie’s contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries en ..more

Ikuzo Yoshi　

Trouble　

At a time when heavy metal was moving forward faster than ever, thanks to the advent and growing popularity of thrash metal, Chicago’s Trouble embodied a nostalgic throwback to the genre’s ..more

Atsuko Niina　

Leon Russell / Mary Russell　

Triumph　

Late-’70s/early-’80s prog metallists Triumph endured countless comparisons to Rush throughout their career, and with good reason; they were both quite similar musically and lyrically, comprised ..more

Meghan Trainor　

Scoring her first hit at 20 years old with the dance-friendly paean to body positivity, All About That Bass, American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor topped the charts with a retro-pop sound tha ..more

Chu Kosaka　

Sakurako Oohara　

Georgie Fame　

Georgie Fame’s swinging, surprisingly credible blend of jazz and American R＆B earned him a substantial following in his native U.K., where he scored three number one singles during the ’60s. ..more

Erykah Badu　

She grew up listening to ’70s soul and ’80s hip-hop, but Erykah Badu drew more comparisons to Billie Holiday upon her breakout in 1997, after the release of her first album, Baduizm. The groo ..more

Shai Maestro　

Flame Dream　

Vulfpeck　

Vulfpeck is a primarily instrumental, Los Angeles-based band inspired by the classic R＆B rhythms recorded by the Funk Brothers, the Meters, and quite possibly Booker T. ＆ the MG’s. The fou ..more

Ken Yokoyama