As an original member of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers, bassist Ron Blair supplied distinctive basslines for the band's classic ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with David Harrington, Gabriela Díaz, Ayane Kozasa, and Paul Wiancko about being the Kronos Quartet. One of the great delights of working at NPR, aside from B.J. Leiderman ...

The instruments mutter and shriek, dissolving the line between noise and music on this authoritative and fascinating disc Helmut Lachenmann is 90 this week, but the event has gone largely unmarked in ...