Actually I keep pretty tight-lipped about all that stuff. I just want to play. I'm more concerned about writing a good song. ...

Released on November 9, 2005, Confessions on a Dance Floor found Madonna ready to party. “When I wrote American Life,” the ...

Taylor Swift was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame by director Steven Spielberg. In her speech, Swift reflected on her career, the instinctual nature of her songwriting, and trusting her own ...

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My youngest son is 10 years old now, and since November, he’s been taking guitar lessons. With a love of Metallica in his heart and a Squier Strat over his shoulder, I bring him to Blue Sky Studios in ...

All hail the guitar solo — one of the most indestructibly great art forms in all of modern music. There’s nothing quite like the thrill of a glorious six-string explosion — a long, twisted, ...

Players often get quite passionate about Strandberg guitars – they either really love the lightweight headless wonders or they're very vocal in their hatred. The innovative Swedes behind such ...

A new program is offering Portuguese guitar lessons from renowned performer Ricardo Parreira. The project aims to preserve the fado tradition in the United States. Lessons will be held virtually and ...

A composer and pianist as well, he was a prolific recording artist who integrated jazz, classical and world music traditions in a career that spanned seven decades. By Hank Shteamer Ralph Towner, a ...

Eddie Durham, one of the most important Swing Era composer/arrangers, was born in San Marcos, Texas, on August 19, 1906. His father played the fiddle at square dances, and his oldest brother, Joe, who ...

Clarence Thomas issues dissent as Supreme Court hands California major win Martin Short's daughter found dead after he initiated wellness check Shilo Sanders bankruptcy: Deion 'will cut his own head ...

Like many, my infatuation with music began when I was an impressionable young kid, at a time when my ears were at the whim of my parents’ CD collections. Lucky for me, I was in good company among the ...