"Anytime you get a chance to preserve something, you should do it," says Michael Trotter of The War & Treaty. "Preservation ...

The legendary bassist looks back at five decades of studio work on hit songs by James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Phil Collins, and many more ...

Sid Sriram opens up about channeling devotion through music, filming at Thaipusam, and evolving his artistic voice ...

Fresh Air host Terry Gross lost her husband on April 14. They were together for 47 years. Today, she shares some of Francis with the audience, including the story of how they met and became a couple.

Johnson describes Soon as a “pop break-up anthem”, while her previous single, Sunburn, is an indie-rock track that takes ...

Michael Jackson’s final studio album may be his best. This underrated release was ahead of its time, with the artist citing ...

Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States (where he also died of a heart attack in 1968), Montgomery came from a musical family, in which his brothers, Monk (string bass and electric bass) and ...

Paul Kelly and the Dots. Turns out they’ve got the residency, every Friday night at the Kingston Hotel. And Friday night rolls around fast, so before you know it you’re back there checking them out ...

The first release on the Chess label in 1950 followed a trend of pop hits being recorded by jazz and R&B artists ... we now call power chords, and Ike Turner’s rocking piano.

B. King before gravitating to ... owed little to the musical vocabulary of his piano-playing predecessors. His penchant for lush, pastel-hued chords and impressionistic tone colors didn’t ...

If there’s one thing you can do to take your songwriting to the next level, it’s getting to grips with new chords. Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from basic open ... uses the same root note, ...