Celeste Moure

In a 1999 interview, the lead singer and songwriter of the Ben Folds Five said that the next record he'd write would be the Thriller of modern rock, with eight hit songs on it. Now, two years after the trio's college-rocker, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, Ben Folds has...

Why do Euro-electronica acts tease us with sexy albums we can get down to, only to follow them up with moody, dark albums we can't? Massive Attack did it with Mezzanine, the follow-up to Protection. Portishead did it with its self-titled follow-up to Dummy. Tricky, well, who knows where his...