British indie rock band Wet Leg have had a hugely successful past 12 months, and much of their success hinges on the “demystifying” discovery that guitarist/vocalist Rhian Teasdale made early in her ...

In the early days, we hopped on every bandwagon going – punk, ska, mod, everything. Fantastic Day was always there, just in different styles. The original was more Talking Heads. I preferred that’ ...

If you're new to the guitar but want to play some fun rock songs, look no further. Here are 10 easy songs from Nirvana, U2, ...

Family and friends are at the heart of McCartney's latest album "Hey, I know you!" exclaims Paul McCartney, gripping my hand as we walk into his office in central London. I'm instantly disarmed. All ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. “I want to start with a sound.” That’s how country singer Eric Church began his commencement address at UNC-Chapel Hill. He compared ...

Charli XCX rediscovers rock, while Beatles and Rolling Stones keep making it. By Jon Pareles Who’d have predicted that as late as 2026, there would still be contending new releases from the (surviving ...

All hail the guitar solo — one of the most indestructibly great art forms in all of modern music. There’s nothing quite like the thrill of a glorious six-string explosion — a long, twisted, ...

You know the riff. It’s a spiky, exuberant burst of electric guitar that often generates cheers of recognition among listeners across many generations. It’s so infectious that by the time you hear Axl ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Abstract: Automatic chord recognition is conventionally tackled as a general music audition task, where the desired output is a time-aligned sequence of discrete chord symbols, e.g. CMaj7, Esus2, etc.

Steve Cropper, who died Wednesday at 84, is not a household name, but the music he made is some of the most familiar in American pop. The twanging guitar line that opens Sam & Dave’s “Soul Man”—that’s ...

G&L Music Instruments, the Fullerton guitar-making shop launched by the legendary Leo Fender, has gone silent after 45 years. News of the company’s closure hasn’t been confirmed by anyone at G&L. But ...