Steven Mirkin

Joy is woefully underrepresented in today's popular music. Your average rock musician would rather admit to an unironic appreciation of Britney Spears than express something so unfettered -- so uncool! -- as pure pleasure. So thank God for Cornershop's Tjinder Singh. On stage, he might come off as your standard-issue,...

The Joshua Tree home of musicians Victoria Williams and her husband, Mark Olson, is not easy to find. Situated on 10-odd acres, a mile or so off the main road on an unmarked, unpaved street -- trail might be a better word -- the home rests in the middle of...