J-HOPE (BTS)　

Kozo Murashita　

NEMOPHILA　

Nick Heyward　

Nick Heyward (vocals, guitar) left his band Haircut 100 just when they were cruising through the pop charts in the U.K. Instead of destroying his career, the move actually provided him with m ..more

Freddie Mercury　

Combining theatrics and an outrageously flamboyant stage persona with his fine natural-born talent (he possessed one of the greatest voices in all of music and penned some of pop’s most enduring and i ..more

Art Blakey / Jazz Messengers　

Weather Report　

Weather Report started out as a jazz equivalent of what the rock world in 1970 was calling a supergroup. But unlike most of the rock supergroups, this one not only kept going for a good ..more

Alice Cooper　

Originally, there was a band called Alice Cooper led by a singer named Vincent Damon Furnier. Under his direction, Alice Cooper pioneered a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal ..more

Thelonious Monk　

The most important jazz musicians are the ones who are successful in creating their own original world of music with its own rules, logic, and surprises. Thelonious Monk, who was criticized by o ..more

Tortoise　

Tortoise revolutionized American indie rock in the mid-’90s by playing down tried-and-true punk and rock ＆ roll influences, emphasizing instead the incorporation of a variety of left-field music ge ..more

KID PHENOMENON from EXILE TRIBE　

Vince Guaraldi　

Vince Guaraldi, the widely acclaimed jazz pianist best known for his cheerful, uplifting work with Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang, got his start in the music biz with a record entitled ..more

Momoko Kikuchi　

GACKT　

John Lennon　

Out of all the Beatles, John Lennon had the most interesting -- and frustrating -- solo career. Lennon was capable of inspired, brutally honest confessional songwriting and melodic songcraft; ..more

EXILE ATSUSHI　

Big Thief　

Brooklyn’s Big Thief fashion vulnerable, folk-tinged indie rock around the songwriting of singer/guitarist Adrianne Lenker. The Minneapolis native began releasing solo material as a teen in 2006 ..more

Masaru Imada　

Kaku P-model　

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