That anvil drop in Metallica’s 1985 heavy metal hit “For Whom The Bell Tolls” might be the most legendary part of the whole song. At the beginning of the track, the sound of a “bell” tolling ushers in ...

Nagaland-based pop-rock band Trance Effect made a powerful international breakthrough with their headline performance at ...

Nagaland-based pop-rock band Trance Effect made a powerful international breakthrough with their performance at Thailand’s ...

There’s immense pressure to give the audience what it wants. A popular term for this is “audience capture.” The financial incentives are obvious, and often, the bands that don’t change quickly become ...

Sometimes it is necessary for a rock band to abandon their original genre and incorporate new elements to help further their success. The music industry has seen artists like Ronnie James Dio leave ...

In 1977, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio cofounder and Swampers guitarist Jimmy Johnson offered a local band called Jackson Highway a song called “Old Time Rock and Roll.” The band, named after Muscle ...