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From The Doobie Brothers to The Smiths, James Brown to Metallica, 7th barre chords are fundamental for playing with more color and sophistication ...

The band’s original name was Toast, “but that meant getting up on stage and saying, ‘We’re toast!’ Half of us found it ...

Director Ryan Coogler and composer Ludwig Göransson met in film school at USC. Their latest collaboration, an explosive mix ...

Best Fit heads to Estonia for Tallinn Music Week and finds the festival’s ethos of togetherness more relevant and urgent than ...

W ith a name derived from the way band members would simply stare down at their shoes while playing on stage, shoegaze is a ...

Genres/vibe: New Orleans music with everything that entails, plus rock, country, and rap. Lineup highlights: Pearl Jam, Dave ...

Pramik was nominated for a Grammy Award for his work on Nothing More’s single “Go To War,” which hit #1 at US Rock Radio, #1 on the US Mainstream Rock Chart and was nominated for three Grammys (Best ...

Grammy Award-winning musicians, professional athletes and celebrities from television and film make up the 2025 Unbridled Eve ...

Julien Baker, one of indie rock’s most consistently solid musicians for the past decade, is no stranger to sharing the ...

New diffusion AI models that make songs from scratch are complicating our definitions of authorship and human creativity.