Shawn Brackbill For the Kills' latest album, 'Blood Pressures,' guitarist Jamie Hince took a completely different approach to writing songs than he had for the band's previous albums. With Alison Mosshart on the road with the Dead Weather, Hince was in the mood to experiment, so he picked up the 1935 Gibson L-00 acoustic guitar he had bought ...

Daniel Boczarski, Redferns Billy Idol looks, sings and sneers just like he did when he first broke onto MTV, and there's a reason he's stuck around a lot longer than many of his '80s contemporaries. "People have a very romantic view of the 1980s," Idol tells Spinner when asked about the longevity of his career. "In music, you must weed out a ...

Yoko Ono has had four consecutive No. 1 hits on the Dance/Club song charts, heralding what she calls the "new era of Yoko Ono." Surprisingly, she says this success originated from something akin to rebellion against her father. Ono was only about four years old when her father, a brilliant pianist, decided she should have formal musical ...