If that’s indeed the case, Australian acoustic guitar maestro Tommy Emmanuel certainly has a lot more than that under his belt. One of only five guitarists to be bestowed the title “Certified Guitar ...

The most common story is that Leo Fender invented the electric bass with his Precision model in 1951. Not so. The first bass ...

Truls Mørk joins Tarmo Peltokoski and the Rotterdam Phil for a deeply emotional reading of Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto no. 2.

The brief visit to a happy place is welcome because the rest of the song is ferocious and foreboding, three chords in a minor key, driven by a hooky and hi-fidelity bass line upon ... where he ...

The most common are 9.5", 12" and 10" but occasionally an inaccurate radius might be stated in a guitar's specs – it's rare but I've found it can happen when I've double ... individual strings) in the ...

This was aimed straight at local Wagnerians, who haven’t heard the Washington National Opera Orchestra play a note of ... the bass-baritone Derek Welton, pulling double duty as Pizarro in ...

ERIC: From the 11th to the 15th centuries, when the Troubadours flourished in Southern France, one of the most famous of the ...

W ith his enormous catalog of hit songs and even larger public persona, Elton John has kept audiences enthralled since he ...

Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos is renowned internationally, but you wouldn’t know it as he greets the audience at the ...

For the Story Behind the Song, NSAI's Bart Herbison talks with British songwriter Tony Macaulay about his hit "Love Grows ...

The band is currently on a massive tour (one which they have concisely dubbed Godspeed You! Black Emperor on American Highway ...