“I’ll give you a perfect example. There’s a song called Electric Saxophone Is Fun (We Want Drugs), and it was done all on ...
It's not often you get to see two bands of such a high-quality on the same night, and I wasn't going to miss out ...
A Christchurch secondary school's end of year prizegiving concert has become a thing of legend. St Andrew's College was ...
The death of Booker T. & the M.G.s’ guitarist Steve Cropper is something of an end of an era for soul and rock and roll.
Bryce Dessner enters the Czech Philharmonic’s living tradition with electric guitars, a new cello concerto and a composer’s ear for landscape, history, collaboration and renewal.
It’s August 1968, and in a poky room beneath London’s Gerrard Street, Jimmy Page is rehearsing his new band. A 24-year-old guitar-for-hire who’d made uncredited appearances on epochal hits by The Who, ...
I really liked Bowers & Wilkins’ original Px8, but I gave them away. Just like the Focal Bathys. Both sets went to Patreon supporters who’d appreciate them more than a reviewer drowning in Bluetooth ...
From psychedelic grooves to minimalist pulses and stadium-shaking riffs, these are the basslines that have shaped rock music ...
It really is the closest we musicians have to a fairy tale: being plucked for obscurity and given a shot at the big time.
The incentives in music journalism say it makes economic sense to cover popular artists. But loving music isn’t about making ...
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, jam band music was rising fast in the minds of many music fans. The style that Dave Matthews Band made popular in the early 90s blossomed into something bigger later ...
This weekend might mark the peak of the holiday season in Wilmington when it comes to events, especially with rain dampening things last weekend.