Lauren Chanel and the North American Touring Company of “Jagged Little Pill.” Photo by Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade. Dillon Klena wasn’t even born when Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 1995. But now he’s part of a new generation of young performers…

Alanis Morissette performs at Concord Pavilion in Concord, Calif. on Sept. 29, 2021. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Garbage photos: Sean Liming/STAFF. CONCORD — Alanis Morissette has such a powerful voice. More than 25 years after her breakthrough album, 1995’s Jagged Little Pill, you may forget how many hits that album begot…

Liz Phair recently told Variety that you can go home again, only things progress and people change. That was a great way to describe her first new album in more than a decade, the fresh-but-comfortable Soberish. Soberish Liz Phair Chrysalis, June 4 8/10 It’s appropriately clever, honest, a bit…

Matchbox Twenty performs at HP Pavilion in San Jose on March 12, 2008. This story originally appeared in the Oakland Tribune. SAN JOSE — Nineties nostalgia overtook the HP Pavilion Wednesday night as recently reunited Matchbox Twenty, touring in support of greatest hits/new material double album “Exile on Mainstream,”…