Frank Sinatra, long acclaimed as the world’s greatest performer of popular music, is the artist who set the standard for all others to follow. Sinatra was, of course, more than a singer—he was an actor, recording artist, cabaret and concert star, radio and television personality, and, on occasion

Glamour, Grand, Intense, Layered, Power, Slick, Sophisticated

When childhood friends Travis McCoy and drummer Matt McGinley decided to start a band in upstate New York over a decade ago, they could have never anticipated how successful Gym Class Heroes would eventually become. How could they have predicted having a record-setting #1 single with “Cupid’s Cho

Cartoonish, Cool, Funny, Layered, Playful, Rhythmic, Slick, Urban

20th-century Italian composer Luciano Berio embraced many forms of music, from twelve-tone modernism, to Romanticism, to folk musics. His works range from pieces for solo instruments (called Sequenzas), to electroacoustic works, to works for orchestra. Berio was particularly fascinated with the capab

Abstract, Classical, Complex, Experimental, Layered, Pioneering, Playful

One half of the now defunct Death From Above 1979, Sebastien Grainger has branched out from the dance-punk sound of DFA1979 and taken a more organic approach to producing music. His debut solo album "Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains", released in October 2008, is full of emotion and complexity,

Beautiful , Charming, Complex, Gritty, Layered, Lush, Lyrical, Rhythmic