Lesley Chow dissects the (semi-) serious intent behind Stephen Malkmus' nonsensical rhymes on Pavement's 3rd album which was ...

Cross Campus began its return to poster-child vibrancy, grass replacing what was once frozen mud. I decided then that it was ...

What decade is it, what continent is it on, what kind of room is it in?” Rain Dogs has much in common with Swordfishtrombones—antiquated instruments, metal-on-metal percussion, stomping cabaret ...

The video for the title track is now available on YouTube, showing Andersen and his studio band recording at his home studio ...

The Cars' album would go on to sell six million copies, powered by the hit singles Just What I Need (number 27 in the US, number 17 in the UK) and My Best Friend’s Girl (number ... But Easton’s twangy ...

“ The first record really got me going again. After coming off Rush and (late drummer) Neil (Peart’s) illness, this is the first project that really got me into music again and playing more,” Lifeson, ...

You know that outmoded conventional wisdom that all the best songs can be played on an acoustic guitar? It’s not a ... The grungy acoustic chords of “Emma” evoke Alex G’s eerie homespun ...

Never Come Down, a bluegrass band based in Portland, Oregon, who performs April 11 and 12 at the Egyptian Theatre, formed seven years ago in a practical manner. “Our guitar player Joe (Suskind) landed ...

Sailing confidently over lush chords by the pianist Oscar Peterson ... clouds reflecting off endless steel buildings, sundown in Greenwich Village, the wry smile of the maître d’hôtel at ...

The solo work of David Sylvian has been marked by collaboration with inspired artists. We celebrate just a few of them.

Most songs that could be called the blues, despite the melancholy name, are set to the bright, cheery tones of major-key chords ... The sound of steel guitar strings is replaced with the chatter ...

A few weeks ago, Facebook quietly rolled out a revamped Friends tab in the U.S. and Canada, and the experience is refreshingly personal. No algorithmically injected “suggested for you” junk.