The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.

Aspiring guitar builder Jukka Sollasvaara and one of his friends have built what might just be the world’s heaviest acoustic ...

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong changed the lyrics in 'Jesus of Suburbia' to include a reference to the Israel-Palestine war ...

Bootsy Collins, who released a new album, is the type of person who can illustrate an idea as if reading it from a tome of spells.

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

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

Sir Elton John isn’t touching down any time soon — the Rocketman is on a mission to make more music and pass on the creative ...

Music can be helpful in healing, says sitarist Rishab Rikhiram Sharma, who strongly believes that raga therapy can play a crucial role for those going through mental health struggles.

Music can be helpful in healing, says sitarist Rishab Rikhiram Sharma, who strongly believes that raga therapy can play a crucial role for those going through mental health struggles. Sharma, who ...

The sometime teacher and modern-day math-rocker recounts the gear that’s made an impact – and gives us a rundown on her most-loved rig ...

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 ...

Regional Mexican music is crossing borders and going global. Corridos, a musical sub-genre often linked to drug cartel ...