The way a piece of music attaches itself to our lives feels like the closest we will come to experiencing actual magic. Songs ...

"Specialists on ancient civilizations could each give you examples of music from their particular areas of expertise, but one could always go back further." Reading time 7 minutes People talk about ...

In the 1950s progressive composers broke from the 5 line music staff to experiment with new, more expressive forms of graphic music notation Jimmy Stamp The score for John Cage’s indeterminate ...

There’s nothing wrong with switching things up. In fact, I’d say that most musicians out there have radically changed their style at least once in their careers. It just comes with the territory of ...

When it comes to the subject of "women in bands", bringing up the idea of female guitarists specifically as a novelty, for example, is worn-out and will eventually be recognized as sexist — suggesting ...

Google Music is dead, and with it one of the few remaining connections I have to the company that doesn’t feel like a gun to my head. The service, now merged haphazardly with YouTube Music, recalled ...

Though Jim Morrison drew much of the attention (and nearly all of the eyeballs), Ray Manzarek of the Doors did as much as any of his bandmates to define the sound of the legendary L.A. group, which ...

For many fans of music, the saying, "We are not in Kansas anymore," rings truer than ever before. While it is evident that the content of the audio version of the entertainment industry has changed, ...