Joan Armatrading

This week, we feature music by Christina Aguilera, Tom Waits, Jim Morrison, Spike Jones, and more.

"Is she the one that sounds like Tracy Chapman?" That's a question often posed when explaining the musical wonderment of Joan Armatrading.

There is this cool little gizmo called a "Loopz" that creates sounds and beats depending on the user's physical interaction with it. An entity calling themselves The Loopz Band will be performing at Comic-Con.

The Big Music Machine is spitting out the twang and the soul this week. Usher falls short, Erykah Badu funks it up, Gretchen Wilson goes big, and Joan Armatrading comes back.

In an interview, Joan Armatrading shares some insights with us into her latest album, her career, and, of course, her stint in The New York City Marathon.

With Layne Staley's death, Alice In Chains was all but done. But fourteen years later, here we are with something that sounds a lot like what the group would have had they returned to the studio a couple years later.

Singer/songwriter and guitarist Joan Armatrading is one of our most compelling of 20th-century musicians, infusing folk-rock with reggae, jazz, and blues.

Spanning seventeen years, a proper Annie Lennox retrospective of her solo material finally arrives -- a mix of grooves, ballads, and two new recordings.

With a basic reverence for the original record, Morrison's live arrangements allow for musicians to add new layers of strata though jams, while acknowledging forty years has passed since the original was slated.