If you think about it a certain way, one of the defining qualities of jazz is earnestness. This is one of the reasons why jazz and metal have so much in common, and so often appeal to the same ...

UK rocker Sam Fender has long admired and imitated the War On Drugs’ approach to modernized heartland rock, and for new album ...

Whereas most drummers rely on feel, Charlie Watts felt that only true artists could see the magic on display with this ...

Woolston Brass performed in high vis and hard hats to raise money for the city's mission.

Jim McGuire Zakir Hussain, a renowned tabla virtuoso and percussionist who was instrumental in spreading the sound and ...

I’ve known for some time that Ariel Sharratt & Matthias Kom’s Never Work is my Album of the Year. This lividly witty, no-filler take-down of workplace servitude arrived on vinyl in May. The creation ...

A few hours before Kirk Hammett took the stage with Metallica, the guitarist paused on the black, not red, carpet outside the YouTube Theater in Inglewood to talk about the importance of the night’s ...