At that age, the stakes were low enough that I considered “music” on par with recess four-square or being the line leader.

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I thought Pam was great,” Joan Armatrading says of her early lyric-writing partner, Pam Nestor. “She was totally different ...

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Derek Trucks talks playing Jerry Garcia's $12 million 'Tiger' guitar, and Bobby Tseitlin tells us about winning it at the Jim ...

When you're in a world-class chamber group like The Calidore String Quartet in Delaware, each instrument carries a colorful ...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist returned to the trumpet, for a new record featuring Nick Cave, Thom Yorke and a core cast ...

Medieval music specialists Irini Bilini Moraiti and Dimitris Kountouras talk about their distinctive approaches to Early ...

Last year marked the 60th anniversary of ‘The Sound of Music’, the musical drama film based on the eponymous 1959 stage ...

Our professional orchestras are one of our cultural glories, as good as any anywhere. Every single one is a miracle of stored ...

There's a reason certain guitar riffs stop you cold the moment they hit. They don't just open songs - they carry whole worlds ...

Originally published in Uncut Take 113 [June 2008 issue], we profile Karen Dalton - the queen of Greenwich Village, a ...