There are some great self-produced albums out there, but here are just three iconic offerings from the 70s and 80s.

Twelve-year-old bass virtuoso Ellen Alaverdyan (better known as @ellenplaysbass on Instagram and YouTube) looks nervous as ...

We dig into the Japanese guitar industry of the 1960s and ’70s and find notable brands, mischievous copies, diligent makers and original designs that led to the instrument’s renaissance in the 1980s a ...

It’s strange to think a rock band like the Kinks were the genesis of one of the most influential jazz fusion songs ever ...

For 54 years, through raucous parties and life’s twists and turns, the author has rocked on with his band.

Sex Pistols Steve Jones has recalled stealing equipment from David Bowie following a Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars ...

HOW THINGS HAVE EVOLVED. Back in the 60's, recording studios were very different places. The equipment wasn't that ...

With sparse arrangements driven by Chapman’s acoustic guitar playing ... I started writing songs when I was 8 years old, and it was just one of these things that I honestly think was in my ...

Blades’ first band was called Rubicon. They were a funk rock group based in San Francisco, and they created music in the late ...

No lover of the cold, the 70-year-old has ... His dad was an old jazzer in the Squadronnaires, sax player, so Pete’s from a proper background. He’s another one who blew his ears out, like me. Those ...

Recreating those signature “peculiar sounds,” as Zappa calls them, required lugging around a massive rig — roughly the size ...

But despite all these skills, I never fully used them. It felt too late, I felt too old, too tired. Now, at 70, I look back and wish I had pushed harder for what I truly wanted. To young people ...