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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions comes up with an epic extraterrestrial playlist for Earth’s first contact from beyond the stars This week’s new question: ...

The blues is more than a genre: it’s the raw, unfiltered voice of human emotion. Born from the spirituals, work songs, and field hollers of African American communities in the Deep South, blues music ...

Frank began playing guitar at age 7 in Canberra, Australia where he was born and raised. He was influenced by the blues playing of Jimi Hendrix , John Mayall / Eric Clapton, and Grateful Dead's Jerry ...

The guitar will never die. And I, for one, take great comfort in that fact, which I can neither confirm nor prove, but know in my heart. Hayden Pedigo has such a delicate, yet demonstrative touch — an ...

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Jacqueline Rodenbeck let her fingers fly over the fingerboard of her violin, up and down, high notes, low, then impossibly high with controlled bowing that summoned the wonderfully lush and romantic ...

The dancefloor's 100 most essential tracks. The term “dance music” may conjure visions of heaving clubs, packed festival tents and partying with abandon, and certainly these concepts are a substantial ...

Hear songs by Mdou Moctar, Bombino, Orchestra Baobab and more. By Ben Sisario For today’s Amplifier, your proprietor Lindsay Zoladz graciously lent me the keys for a little tour of Africa to celebrate ...

David Bowie is perhaps one of the last music heroes ever to exist. He embellished art in every sense of the word, reinstating its power as a delicate, meticulous craft with elements that worked ...

For all of its exhausting megastar narratives and apparent monoculture victories, 2023 was, beneath the surface, an unpredictable year. Regional Mexican Music burst into the mainstream, underground ...

In his indelible history of glam rock, critic Simon Reynolds described the genre as “alien, sensationalistic, hysterical in both senses, a place where the sublime and ridiculous merge and become ...