"You're my friend, but I'm going to kill you." Don't fret. T Bone Burnett hasn't gone off the deep end. At least not in that way. He's merely explaining the tone of "Anything I Say Can and Will Be Used Against You," the put-you-on-your-heels opening track of his gripping new album, Tooth of Crime (Nonesuch). At once seductive and unsettling - from the haunting "Dope Island" (featuring alluring vocals by Sam Phillips) to oddly romantic " Kill Zone" to the brutal "The Rat Age" to the atmospher...

Joe Jackson was born on August 11, 1954 in Burton-on-Trent, England, but grew up in the South Coast naval port city of Portsmouth. A skinny, asthmatic kid, he loved books and originally wanted to be a writer. At age 11, though, he joined a school violin class in order to escape the humiliation of Sports periods in which it was very often him, rather than the ball, which got kicked. Much to his own surprise, he found himself fascinated by music and eagerly studying music theory and history. ...

Since its release last May, Gomez's album "How We Operate" has consistently garnered critical and commercial acclaim with Entertainment Weekly, Billboard and NPR calling the album the band's finest. "How We Operate" was hailed as "The Best Rock Album of the Year" by The Wall Street Journal. The title track off of "How We Operate" quickly became a staple track for the hit ABC series "Grey's Anatomy," where it was prominently featured in the season finale and show promos. In addition, the ban...

Stardate: Summer 2006. As these words are being written, Kasabian are jetlagged, but happy. Three days ago, they returned from Mexico City, where a disused supermarket full of saucer-eyed devotees treated them like returning heroes. "They even sang along to the keyboards in Processed Beats," exclaims Serge Pizzorno. And then when we did the new stuff. It was..." - Pizzorno is rarely lost for words. When he is though, here's Tom Meighan to pick up the baton - "...legendary. I've never felt...

Sophie Solomon's voice is her violin. Whether she's performing with the LSO or playing with her own band, her music is a thrilling combination of technique and passion that refuses to be confined by the conventional parameters of the instrument. "When I play, the violin is like an extension of my body," she says. "I'm not thinking about anything else. I don't completely understand what happens but it's definitely as if the spirit takes over." Her unique musical vision reaches its full f...