These famous songs hide strange, subtle, and surprising instruments, from tiny synths to orchestral touches and studio ...

Using the low-end monster riffs of Spiritbox's Fata Morgana, Stringer offers up a rhythm masterclass in modern metal ...

There is something about the violin that keeps showing up at the exact moment a story needs to feel enormous. Not a guitar, ...

From contrabassoons to harmonicas, we take a look at some of the concertos for more unusual instruments to have found their ...

“I thought Odelay might be the last time I got a chance to make a record,” Beck told Rolling Stone in 2008. That might sound like false humility from an artist who, at the time of that interview, had ...

“We have a joke that, on one album, we’re all just gonna get really buff. Like Arnie [Schwarzenegger] buff, where your shoulders are higher than your ears,” he declares, talking from his garden on one ...

Bandmember Brian Jones played an unusual instrument on the track. "Paint It Black" became the first sitar-featured song to top the Billboard Hot 100. Brian Jones introduced sitar to the Stones, ...

Angine de Poitrine don't abide by the usual rules of Western music, using their own custom-built guitar to strike notes that shouldn't exist ...

The pipe organ is typically associated with formal concert halls, church music and traditional works by Baroque composers like Bach. But one musician, Anna Lapwood, is broadening the instrument’s ...

The Alaska Volcano Observatory has raised the caution level at Kupreanof Volcano on the Alaska Peninsula, a normally quiet peak that hasn’t had a major eruption in almost 570,000 years. “It’s a ...

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 ...

It’s a whopper of a week as I review 10 albums, including a couple of fantastic ones: Weird Nightmare (Alex Edkins of METZ) and Kneecap‘s second album, FENIAN. There’s also a new one from both The Boo ...