It’s hard to say for sure, but something special happens when an old instrument meets contemporary creativity. These aren’t ...

John Patitucci, one of the world’s great bassists, was an irreplaceable pillar of the unsurpassable Wayne Shorter Quartet for ...

One of the best songs from one of the best metal albums of 2025. No Loss, No Love veered from savagely heavy, pick-scraped ...

Barrett Kalellis, who founded multiple Michigan music ensembles, receives grand prize for "The Hill of Vision" at age 81.

The imbalance isn’t new, only its scale. In Dürer’s Melencolia I, etched a decade before his treatise, a winged figure broods ...

Conductor Klaus Mäkelä, right, and pianist Yunchan Lim during a concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Dec. 18, 2025.

All the players who rocked our world, in the year of Oasis reunions, Black Sabbath farewells, and guitarists keeping their shoulder to the evolutionary wheel of guitar playing ...

The Mainstage Concert happens Jan. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at Calvary Lutheran Church in Eureka, followed by a more casual “Concert ...

This is the start of our top 75 of our essential 100 (or so) tracks to come out of Scotland in 2025. It marks the 11th year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...

Höfner, the German instrument company responsible for Paul McCartney's iconic violin bass, has filed for bankruptcy.

Four music ensembles from the Clinton Symphony Orchestra will perform Sunday, Jan. 11, at Zion Lutheran Church in Clinton, ...

One of the most historically significant instrument makers in popular music, Höfner, has filed for bankruptcy in Germany, placing the future of the company behind Paul McCartney’s most famous bass ...