Herman Melville was born in 1819 to a quintessentially American family -- one bestarred with Revolutionary heroes and Tea Party guests. His father, Allan Melvill (who would later add the elegant "e" to the family name), had a mediocre opinion of him, writing around his son's 12th birthday that he was

Baroque, Expansive, Grand, Lyrical, Overflowing, Repetition, Romantic literature, Sublime

Ween consumes genres and styles and gestures and tics like they were candy.

Absurd, Baroque, Bubblicious, Cartoonish, Citational, Joyful, Playful, Quirky, Smarty arty pop, Wise assy, Witty

Francesco Vezzoli's work plays on a dark fascination with the luster and decadence of celebrity and the treadmill of fame and extends a whole tradition of artists, from Andy Warhol to Douglas Gordon, dealing in their work with Hollywood and cinema. Vezzoli has collaborated with charismatic, aging div

Baroque, Glamour

At once sprawling and tight, epic and intimate, smarty and poppy, Grandaddy make the music you always hoped someone would make.

Baroque, Bubblicious, Candy, Dreamy, Epic, Joyful, Kaleidoscopic, Layered, Polychromatic, Pop, Quirky, Smart, Smarty arty pop, Technology