Electricity? Overrated… ‘Real’ guitarists know that a guitar’s genuine excitement is best earned via the more personal connection of the player plus the resonant wooden body of an acoustic. Decades ...

The album might be described as dance music for cosmopolitan bohemians. The melodies here are usually little more than ...

Baseball writers Peter Gammons and Jeff Horrigan started the Hot Stove Cool Music event 25 years ago. Each year it brings ...

Including the intervals, this was 12 hours long: a monumental demand upon audiences, actors and technicians. Within that ...

After strolling on stage with a crack 12-piece band, complete with brass section ... At around the four-minute mark, Zappa ...

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Rundgren comes to LA on Sunday, March 23 on tour with ‘What The World Needs Now: The Burt Bacharach Songbook Live In Concert.’ ...

His unique approach to guitar ... and minor II-V-I sequences moving through single notes (2a), question and answer (2b), double-stops (2c), and ending with oblique motion ideas and block chords ...

When I walked into the Vera Project on a rainy Sunday morning, I spotted musicians whose work I’ve followed for years—Shaina Shepherd, Chris Martin of Kinski, Ben Verellen of Helms Alee, Bree ...

Not typical sort of pop changes that were often derived from 12-bar blues sorts of things ... At the time, I wanted to be a guitar player. We didn’t even have a piano in the house, so ...

Mel Brooks’ original film was made in 1967, when you could have fought in World War II, and still be in your 40s. Fifty-eight ...

Elton John and Brandi Carlile are a pair of kindred musical spirits on their collaborative album, "Who Believes in Angels." Here are the best songs.