Watching the fingerstyle guitarist perform in a small Iowa City theater reaffirmed my belief in music’s ability to conjure ...

Feedback and smashed Rickenbackers were the results of his frustration with both suburban life and his limited guitar skills.

Perhaps the youngest audience the Los Angeles Philharmonic has welcomed this year squirmed and fidgeted alongside their ...

Nirvana is one of the best bands of the '90s, and songs like "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Come As You Are" are all you need to hear to prove that.

From building Smoke and Stack from the inside out to on-set espresso rituals, the duo offers a candid, behind-the-scenes look ...

This music is a spiritual successor to my old track "Radioactive" Built from the same concept, but it turned into a ...

At least one secret, anyway! Upper structure triads are the best way I know to convey a huge amount of information in a very concise way. Jazz harmony might just become much more manageable for you if ...

Kohei Horikoshi is a master of character design, and his heroes and villains have the potential to star in their own series.

Esa-Pekka Salonen, the orchestra’s longtime music director, came back to lead his first concerts since being named its ...

Dr. Carolyn Phillips has developed a therapeutic program for patients that integrates music — specifically, the ukulele — to help with movement and memory.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with John Fogerty after his Tiny Desk performance about Proud Mary and touring with his family.

I have a degree in film and television studies, but I have never watched these two iconic gangster films. Six hours later, I ...