Highland Park Strings celebrating ‘300 Years of Great Music’ during its 47th season

Lawrence “Larry” Block plans every season for the Highland Park Strings. It’s a labor of love that the founder, general manager, and co-principal cellist of the group just completed for the 47th ...

“So, Dave, how do I slash the amp?”: Dave Davies picks up a razor and slashes a speaker on camera to demonstrate how he got the Kinks’ iconic proto-fuzz guitar tone

There are gear demos and then there are gear demos in which a guitar legend performs the most radical amp mod to show us how he got the guitar tone on You Really Got Me ...

25 years ago, Radiohead were the world's most talked-about guitar band. Then they burned the rulebook

Released 25 years ago, Kid A subverted all of the lofty expectations that had been placed on the band, and cemented their status as one of popular music's leading creative lights ...

Plucked, Bowed, and Hammered: At the Armory, 11,000 Strings

An orchestra squeezed out of a car stereo still resembles an orchestra, but listening to a recording of 11,000 Strings would be like swimming in a water glass. There’s no way to approximate this ...