Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band is one of the most exciting acts on the blues scene today, exciting both hardened blues fans ...

Cowbells have been around for thousands of years, so no surprise they appear in music. In 1904, Gustav Mahler used cowbells ...

This summer, three of the jam world’s foremost acts will band together for an unforgettable live series. From July 6-20, Railroad Earth, Yonder Mountain ...

The tendency for young musicians, especially those who work in the language of jazz, is to overplay. Can we blame them? After ...

Music lovers looking for a reason to escape to the Oregon Coast for a long weekend of swing, rock, blues, jazz, doo-wop and ...

Avedis I was trying to combine other metals into gold when he discovered a winning combination for stronger, more durable percussionist cymbals.

Pharrell Williams made an animated Lego documentary about his life, and it came out in theaters and everything. Pharrell’s ...

TRYON—The Foothills Music Club met on Thursday, February 13, at the home of Carole Bartol. The theme for the program was ...

Though sung well, "The Last Five Years," Jason Robert Brown’s two-character musical, faces an uphill staging battle in this Seattle production at ACT Theatre.

Cymbals are made using expensive raw materials like copper, tin, and even silver (in trace amounts). When Seifried lathes a raw bronze disc to create a cymbal, it throws off razor-sharp metal shavings ...