Festival season is here, and jam fans are ready to ride the wave. From deep improv sessions to unexpected collabs, the energy is building for a summer of live music, community, and freeform ...

Shane Hawkins reveals his father Taylor Hawkins' real favorite Foo Fighters song to play live during a recent drum clinic.

From the moment the Arctic Monkeys released 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' in 2006, they've been one one of the most buzzed-about bands on the planet. Last year's 'AM' finally ...

Because grunge arose from a relatively condensed geographic area: the city of Seattle, and the surrounding area in the Pacific Northwest, many of the musicians involved were actually longtime ...

No offense, but some people are way too easily offended – especially when it comes to music. While it's true musicians (the relatively famous ones, at least) can make an indelible mark on ...

Formed as a pop-punk band in the late '80s, Green Day got their start as a part of the San Francisco Bay area's DIY punk scene, but they quickly outgrew it. Soon, they were touring nationally and ...

On May 25, 1977, an unheralded science-fiction epic named Star Wars opened in less than three dozen theaters across the United States. From this modest beginning sprung the most popular franchise ...

Would you spend $15,000 for a record player that could play your records in a 100 percent analog fashion without ever wearing them down? That's what the Japanese company ELP promises. They sell ...

White worked on the album in a spartan apartment with no distractions, using tools he had at his disposal when he was 15: A quarter-inch four-track tape recorder, a simple mixer and basic ...

If Jack White is on it, you can absolutely judge an album by its cover. His face (clearly visible in the artwork for all but two of the dozen records he's credited for) is like a notarized stamp ...

Eurythmics had one thing their MTV-era synth-pop contemporaries didn't: Annie Lennox. The singer brought warmth and depth to a genre that was usually lacking in those departments. Dave Stewart's ...