Cassidy Haley is a modern-day Renaissance man of sorts, a multi-faceted artist who's done everything from stiltwalking in avant garde circus acts to designing celebrities' leather fashions for his company Skin.Graft, from auditioning with a Death Cab For Cutie song on "American Idol" to recording original music and directing his own... 
Rock 'n'
roll history is filled with iconic album cover images--Sticky Fingers' functional zipper, the Velvet Underground's
Warholian banana, Nevermind's dollar-chasing
pool baby, Sgt. Pepper's collage-like
group shot, Rio's extremely '80s Nagel print--but
all of those covers just look like cheapo clip art next to the recently
unveiled genius artwork for the Klaxons' upcoming sophomore album,... 
Post-Katrina and with the rise of the acclaimed TV show Treme, New Orleans has been in the news like never before.So too has been Trombone Shorty--one of the city's most conspicuous musicians (trombone, trumpet, apparent shortness), and one who between his acclaimed new Verve Forecast album Backatown, onstage appearances with... 
There's a growing fanbase out there for Jordan Witzigreuter--who is professionally known as The Ready Set, and whose new album, I'm Alive, I'm Dreaming, is getting noticed in all the right places.Released on the Decaydance/Sire label, the album--the first under the Ready Set banner--represents the fruition of 20-year-old Witzigreuter's journey... 
Christopher Walken once immortally cried out for "more cowbell!" in a Blue Oyster Cult-themed Saturday Night Live skit, and Free Energy--aka Philadelphia's modern-day, indie-rock answer to the Sweathogs--have heeded the call on Stuck On Nothing, a bitchen, cowbell-laden slab of unabashedly Rick Springfieldian powerpop. The album, quite charmingly if not... 
The latest crop of NME-endorsed
British buzz bands have created a racket with electric guitars and techno
keyboards, but Mumford & Sons have generated just as loud a buzz with such lo-fi instruments
as mandolin, accordion, banjo, dobro, double-bass...and hardly any drums. The
instrument-swapping London folk-rockers actually have more in common with
legendary Americana acts... 
Synthpoppers Elkand (formerly Goat Explosion) were one of my favorite under-the-radar indie bands of the mid-2000s, and when they split in 2005, I thought it was a shame that they'd never made it big. But now ex-Elklanders Jonathan Pierce and Jacob Graham have triumphantly returned with a new Brooklyn-based buzz band,... 
New hip-hop duo Chiddy Bang, including
rapper Chiddy Bang and producer Xaphoon Jones, are following a path paved by
other MC and DJ/producer combos: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince,
Gangstarr, and Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth.
They recently displayed their skills during a visit to the Yahoo! Music studios where they were... 
The Atlanta
based The Constellations just want to make you dance, member Wes Hoffman told
us when the 8-member band recently stopped by the Yahoo! Music offices for an interview
and to play three live songs from their new album, Southern Gothic.
But when the Virgin Records group says they want listeners to party... 
Mark Ronson made a name for himself doing iconic covers of modern hits in a horn-heavy, jazzy vein, but with his new band the Business Intl, the in-demand, Grammy-winning producer has done a total 180, eschewing brass sections for synth banks and remakes for originals. And the results so far... 
