In Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life, the author closes his excellent history of the US underground of the 1980s with a condemnation of the music which came after. He decries the ...

Something that the Quad Cortex mini (and bigger Quad) does better than other modellers is in the Synth sound. It works as an ...

Since his days at Verve Records in the early 1960s, when he produced seminal bossa nova albums by such artists as Luiz Bonfa, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Walter Wanderley, Laurindo Almeida, Bola Sete, Joao ...

Viola is the Rodney Dangerfield of orchestral instruments. Like that 20th-century comedian, the viola is known for getting no respect. Above it in pitch is the violin, the instrument of the superstar ...

Charlie Noordewier’s Joy and Despair turns trance into surrender. Neon Music breaks down the lyrics, sound and emotional ...

Rock music is powered by personalities as much as power chords. Bands aren’t just collections of players; they’re volatile chemical reactions. Change one element, and the whole thing can explode – or ...

Keith Richards has put a name to those differences, highlighting the simple but effective guitar trick at the heart of The Rolling Stones.

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