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Ever wonder how guitarists like SRV and Jeff Healey get that silky, singing sound? Philip Sayce demonstrates how to master the art of the vibrato, from bending into the pitch to shaking the note with ...

Some musicians fall into the blues. Sue Foley had a calling. “It spoke to my soul, my spirit,” the Canadian-born Austinite said last month during a phone call to talk about headlining Tucson’s 2025 ...

Rain Dogs is forty years old today. I won’t get into all of it, because there is simply too much to get into, but I am thinking most about what we encounter at the record’s 46-minute mark: a song ...

The dancefloor's 100 most essential tracks. The term “dance music” may conjure visions of heaving clubs, packed festival tents and partying with abandon, and certainly these concepts are a substantial ...

There’s always one. It’s that single track on a great record that sucks to such a profound degree that it almost feels like a sick joke. They exist for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes the lead singer ...

If you plan to see Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers this weekend, be prepared to be knocked on your ass by its propulsive score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Their synthwave-inspired compositions add ...

Nichols once told us his guitar style was like wrestling a bear but there’s more than raw-meat physicality to his playing as he demonstrates how his creativity is set free by fingerstyle When you ...

A chat from 1995 when Gary Moore was preparing his album of Peter Green songs, using the Greeny Les Paul When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

2021 has been another difficult year for electronic music, thanks in part (three-quarters, really) to the ongoing global pandemic. More than any other modern genre of music, electronic is deeply ...

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