Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical information about over eighty contemporary musicians and groups; each with a critical essay about the artist or band's work, discographies, and listings of articles about the performer/s.
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Content includes: Altan ; American Hi-Fi ; AZ ; Lester Bangs ; Blue Man Group ; Boards of Canada ; The Box Tops ; Toni Braxton ; Alison Brown ; Ray Campi ; Canned Heat ; Chayanne ; Chevelle ; Terri Clark ; Codona ; James Conlon ; Cornelius ; Cox Family ; Daniel Amos ; Dashboard Confessional ; Martin Denny ; Deke Dickerson ; John Digweed ; Eartha ; Teddy Edwards ; The Elms ; Everclear ; Felix da Housecat ; Ibrahim Ferrer ; Fleetwood Mac ; Flying Burrito Brothers ; Free ; Ana Gabriel ; Galactic ; Astrud Gillberto ; Great White ; Alehandra Guzman ; Tish Hinojosa ; The Hives ; Ida ; Michael Jackson ; Buddy Johnson ; The Jordanaires ; R. Kelly ; Earl King ; Lil' Mo ; Linkin Park ; Marilyn Manson ; Jason Moran ; Airto Moreira ; Nicole C. Mullen ; Mickey Newbury ; O-Town ; Johnny Paycheck ; ? and the Mysterians ; Antonio Reid ; Renee Rosnes ; The Runaways ; Kadim al-Sahir ; Jordi Savall ; Erick Sermon ; Talvin Singh ; Snoop Dogg ; Sons of the Desert ; Soulive ; Victoria Spivey ; Randy Stonehill ; 3LW ; Tingstad & Rumbel ; Nicholas Tse ; Tuck & Patti ; Keith Urban ; William Walton ; Whiskeytown ; and Josh Wink.