Jimi Hendrix served as John Frusciante's major guitar-playing influence. But even when he became a master, he couldn't perfect this Hendrix classic.

We’ve all had that moment where a song comes on the radio and just stops us cold. It's that "hair standing up on your arms" feeling that only a truly generational voice can trigger. But who actually ...

One of the coolest and most badass-sounding things a guitarist can do is double a long, complex bassline an octave higher. This was my approach for the song Dean Town, which I rec ...

Playing someone who isn’t yourself is already mental gymnastics — but adding the extra layer of portraying a famous actor might make your head spin. Keep reading to see which stars have transformed ...

This year, Neural built on that success with the Quad Cortex mini, which shrinks the device size in half, cuts the ...

Washington National Opera's excellent production of Scott Joplin's historic and only surviving opera plays its last performance at Lisner Auditorium on Sunday, March 15 To honor the country’s 250th ...

Even though plenty of songs are intended to get stuck in people's heads, some songwriters make tunes that are catchy in the wrong ways.

The desert sun beats down on the white gaddis facing the makeshift platform, glancing off the reddening bare scalp of the man ...

Some voices do more than carry a tune. They define entire eras, shape entire genres, and leave a mark so deep that no amount of time - or talent - can erase it. Rock music has produced thousands of ...

I do not claim bagged milk — that was never me.

Kent Tritle conducted the Musica Sacra chorus and orchestra (strings, piano, harp, organ and percussion), with soprano Susanna Phillips and baritone John Moore, in vivid settings of 17 poems—some ...

Wow, that distinctive Tony Hadley voice captured on vinyl. The sales room went quiet – as in very. Almost the same quiet as ...