Gary Numan

On a recent fall afternoon, "experimental" hip-hop duo the Knux sidled into a Melrose Avenue vintage clothing emporium wearing matching pairs of skin-tight jeans, Chuck Taylor sneakers and expressions of serious intent. Style is as important as...

TAYLOR SWIFT Fearless Big Machine Taylor Swift made a speedy ascent past the roadblocks of obscurity and high school with the success of her 2006 debut, which rang up five straight hits beginning with " Tim McGraw" and established her as a bona fide...

LOOKING classic-casual in a summer blazer, gray fedora and matching silk scarf, Ne-Yo leaned over his laptop in a West Hollywood recording studio one mid- August afternoon, playing selections from "Year of the Gentleman," his third solo album, out Sept....

RA RA RIOT The Rhumb Line Barsuk Syracuse indie-rock band Ra Ra Riot was on a fast upward trajectory after forming in 2006. Within six months, the group landed a showcase spot at a music festival in New York, earned high praise from major media and...

THIS SEASON'S sartorial tale of two cities may have started with slump-chested pessimism in Milan, where the answer to the sorry state of the world was to throw in the towel, stay home from the office and protest in your pj's. But it ended in Paris last...

TALK about a tour manager's worst nightmare. Chad Hugo had missed his flight from Virginia, skipped rehearsal and wasn't picking up the phone. Worse still, with less than an hour until show time it appeared the 32-year-old multi-instrumentalist and...

Derrick May, who will deejay Friday at Smart Bar, is one of the pioneers of techno music, though he's not eager to accept the responsibility. "Don't use the word `invented,' because it's simply not true," he says. "We innovated. We took this terrific...

Seen and heard amid the din at the SnoCore Winter Festival at the Riviera on Wednesday: The kids are all right: The SnoCore festival's total lack of identity these past six years has allowed the tour to grab hold of whatever flavor of the moment...

On video screens suspended over the stage Friday at Allstate Arena, a recurring image out of a child's primal nightmare welcomed fans into Korn's netherworld. While the guitarists in the Bakersfield, Calif., quintet hunched over their instruments like...