Michael Christopher

Alison Mosshart is in the middle of talking about the often crazy moments she experiences onstage when something outside the window catches the eye of Jamie Hince, her bandmate in The Kills. He begins yelping, not unlike a canine might at the mailman arriving. “He’s turning into a dog,” Mosshart......

The excitement surrounding this week’s premiere of Montage of Heck, the documentary on Kurt Cobain, along with the popularity in recent years of similar features on Jimi Hendrix and Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, has proven that narratives focusing on musicians who died young and under tragic conditions never lose their......

Hits like "Fire Woman" and "She Sells Sanctuary" made the Zeppelin- and Doors-influenced hard rock of The Cult an MTV staple in the mid-'80s. The English outfit's foundation was guitarist Billy Duffy and frontman Ian Astbury, the latter known for his goth-meets-Native American shamanisms. Internal tensions led to hiatuses, but......