The instrument appeared prominently in a music video which has been viewed more than 1.4 billion times on YouTube.

A thoroughbred instrument solo on a hip-hop song can take it from satisfactory to superior with the quickness. Whether cooked up from scratch in the studio or crafted due to some production magic, the ...

Strangeways, Here We Comeis often considered to be the height of The Smiths’ musical career throughout the 1980s before their sudden break-up in '87. Following the critical acclaim of The Queen Is ...

The sounds of a harp-like instrument called the yazh, named for the mythological animal Yali whose image was carved into its stem, once filled the halls of temples and royal courts in southern India.

In the April 2011 issue of SPIN, we caught up with Explosions in the Sky, the Texas-based band who’ve taken wordless music to unexpected heights. But they’re hardly the first to rock with their traps ...

Plenty of songs through the 20th century have been banned from radio stations around the world. Rock music, in particular, has historically been censored quite a bit. “God Save The Queen” by Sex ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...