She Remembers Everything by Rosanne Cash album reviews & Metacritic score: The 15th full-length release for the singer-songwriter features contributions from such artists as T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Kris Kristofferson, John Leve...
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There's absolutely no excuse for music fans to not know these groundbreaking albums by some of country's boldest names.
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A brief history of the term’s evolution.
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In a life bookended by tragedy, Prince Nico Mbarga poured joy into music, including the most popular song in African history. But his own story has never been told — until now.
Before they released "Wichita Lineman," the greatest unfinished song of all time, Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb lived surprisingly parallel lives.
Minton’s Playhouse, the birthplace of bebop, still rules over 118th Street.
With the album on the wane and attention spans shorter than ever, the first 30 seconds of of a song matter more than. Not only do they need to capture. Continue reading
Learn about synthesizers via Ableton’s interactive website. Play with a synth in your browser and learn to use the various parts of a synth to make your own sounds.
More than 90 years ago, recordings in a hat warehouse in Bristol, Tenn., unleashed a quintessentially American musical form.
In this column, “Just putting this out there…,” we write about the odd ways we engage with tech and the unpopular opinions we form about it. You can read the rest of the articles in this series here. One of my biggest sources of inner turmo
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After a chunk of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back.
The most storied label in jazz turns 80 this year. Hear the music that shaped its legacy.
With so many video streaming services now, we need a unifier
When music writers are also music fans, they can walk a line between appreciative and intrusive.
Few embodied the spirit of New Orleans, or helped take its music to strange new places, the way the man born Mac Rebennack did.
Stay Around by J.J. Cale album reviews & Metacritic score: The 15-track release posthumous album of unreleased songs were compiled by his widow, Christine Lakeland Cale and manager Mike Kappus....
The 20-year-old guitar phenom understands the blues as a lifeline, a malleable language, a way of being in the world.
Once derided, the successors to muzak have grown more sophisticated – and influential – than any of us realize.
For a century, jazz was a men’s club. Now a vanguard of women virtuosi—including these 16 standouts—are reshaping this most American of art forms.
Tim Duffy started Music Maker Relief Foundation to support blues musicians lost to time and poverty. He's also photographed their portraits for a new book, compilation album and museum exhibition.
Karen O and Danger Mouse covered Lou Reed's "Perfect Day", and it's streaming now. The two released their Lux Prima album in March.
I cannot write about Nigerian bandleader, saxophonist, and founder of the Afrobeat sound, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, with any degree of objectivity, whatever that might mean.
Mac Rebennack devoted himself to New Orleans culture.
This theoretical physicist’s idea has an astounding legacy.
He was falsely cast as Mozart’s murderer and music’s sorest loser. Now he’s getting a fresh hearing.
A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s have been digitized and made available online for free listening.
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“Dakar was where everyone came to make music.”
Blue Note release—whether or not you were a fan of jazz or had heard of the artist or even the label. “If you went to those record stores,” says Estelle Caswell in the Vox Earworm video above, “it probably wasn’t the sound of Blue Note that immediately caught your attention.
From Black Panther to Clueless, Dazed and Confused to Purple Rain, the music that has defined modern filmmaking
A quiet Sunday night in 1953. The Dodgers had just won the pennant. J.F.K. and Jacqueline Bouvier had just married. And four titans of bebop came together in a dive bar for a rare jam session.
Veteran blues-rock powerhouses Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks return with an impassioned new album, informed by the deaths of several mentors and family members.
Duster was a small, largely forgotten band from the late ’90s. Then their legend began to grow on sites like Discogs. Now, they’re the subject of a major reissue. The internet made it all possible.
A writer never knew her family’s house on St. Thomas, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, but discovering it, and her history, became an obsession.
Plus, explosive photography from Austin, instrumentals from Billy Preston, and a podcast investigation of Anna Nicole Smith.
Thousands of French people are coming to live in Quebec and discovering that a common language doesn’t necessarily mean a common culture.
Color constancy continues to confound us.
Spotify’s acquisitions of Gimlet and Anchor signal ambitious plans to disintermediate the music industry.
Seated at a table on the rear deck with Lindsay Lohan and her entourage, I spotted Alex Jimenez — a professional yacht influencer.
Seems there was a time when the dominant story of punk was the story of British punk. If you knew nothing else, you knew the name Sid Vicious, and that seemed to sum it up.
On the Americana singer-songwriter's sixth album, Carll unburdens his mind about the volatility of our time so unassumingly, he never comes close to overburdening his songs.
Investigation finds officials ignored warnings for years before one of the deadliest crashes in decades.
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There are, I guess, still many things people can do these days to tap into the legacy of CBGB, but I wouldn’t recommend going near most of them.
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This virtual guitar online simulator plays the chords of a real acoustic guitar.