I hadn’t touched a mandolin since adolescence, and, even then, I’d only fooled around. My wife was beside me. “Do it,” she ...

Me, I’m distracting myself as usual with lots of new music and today I review six new records, plus a look back at a Cocteau ...

Some names get written into every music textbook. Others quietly reshape the entire landscape of sound while the world looks ...

When you google Paul Hoffman, a lot of Paul Hoffmans come up. There’s Paul Hoffman the English writer, not to be confused ...

Qin pointed out that the Wizards, formerly known as the Washington Bullets, were the first-ever NBA team to visit China, in ...

On Sunday April 29, the St. Louis Symphony played a concert in the Foellinger Great Hall at the Krannert Center for the ...

Meyers, who died March 7, helped shape Tex-Mex music with the '60s band Sir Douglas Quintet and then with the Texas Tornados. His signature sound was on the vox organ. Originally broadcast in 1990.

Hellman’s is finally answering the question on everyone’s minds: Is mayonnaise an instrument? The question was infamously first posed about 25 years ago by the lovable starfish Patrick on “SpongeBob ...

The sounds of Afghan history are being erased to prevent music’s ‘moral corruption’ of the Afghan people. We can help keep Afghanistan’s music alive. Plus, Eliane Radigue’s deep listening, and the ...

Is that an MRI machine, a happy little robot, a Pokemon? (Laughter) Is my radio broken? KARI LOVE: It is an electronic synthesizer built out of a disposable vape. It is a novelty instrument of sorts.

In a world where parents are looking for more significant and distinctive names for their children, the Indian artistic and musical tradition provides a veritable treasure trove of options that are ...

Musical innovation and uniqueness is what tends to set great artists apart from their contemporaries. Especially when it comes to the use of creative, unorthodox, or perhaps odd, instruments. Or ...