Sometimes, it all starts with a riff — a singular piece of music that ends up anchoring an entire song. Eventually, Petty and Lynne filled in the rest of the missing pieces, and when it came time to ...

When Abbie Hoffman burst onto the stage as part of a protest during Woodstock 1969, most versions say that Pete Townshend ...

Released on Feb. 25, 1981, 13 days after the debut of Moving Pictures, “Limelight” was penned by Peart. The lyrics delved ...

In the ’70s and ’80s, Emily Remler broke new ground by blending jazz with samba, bossa nova, bebop, and hard bop, recording seven studio albums before her tragic death at 32 ...

In continuation with our collaboration with Italy-based punks at the Persimmon Collective, we have an interview with Kenny ...

The folk singer who Rolling Stone magazine credited with launching the singer-songwriter genre comes to Southern California for a trio of shows.

Local musician Henry LaLiberte hit a milestone last year, playing 300 shows in 2025 alone. Almost all of his gigs were in the ...

I was in the airport the first time I heard knitting, which released me from the crabbing of screeching children and gate change announcements into the intimate, grunge-inflected, introspective sonic ...

A 1991 hit that was a rock band's signature song was named one of the greatest guitar solos of all time and it still rocks today.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Johnstown’s Point Stadium bustled with activity 100 years ago, but construction workers occupied the field instead of baseball players. Relatively new technology – portable electric ...

Guitar Hero PS5. The Guitar Hero franchise was a commercial behemoth around 17 years ago, with Activision’s music rhythm series seeing multiple entries and spin-offs across PS2 & PS3 helmed by ...