Let's take a look back to the dying days of the 60s with great albums from Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, The Beatles, The ...

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One of the albums reviewed in this week’s column, Mérylle Ampe’s Two Daughters, includes a live recording from the sadly defunct French experimental music festival Sonic Protest, which took place in ...

The Beatles' penchant for rock is baked right into their winkingly rhythmic name. Still, they were already unplugging for rootsy acoustic songs while Beatlemania was still raging in 1964. As their ...

Spanish-American singer-songwriter Victoria Canal gave the words ‘take these broken wings and learn to fly’ a new meaning with a rendition of The Beatles’ classic Blackbird on the piano, garnering ...

Ravel channelled the Baroque milieu of François Couperin through a 20th-century lens in his six-movement piano suite. Jed Distler surveys a century of recordings Composed between 1914 and 1917, ...

A lot of what Ian Anderson made with Jethro Tull went well beyond the idea of progressive rock. Although they are celebrated as one of the originators of the genre and could make some of the greatest ...

Every electric guitarist should have a few pedals in their arsenal to help shape their instrument's tone, boost its dynamics or sonic capabilities, or perform practical duties to ensure they always ...

Electricity? Overrated… ‘Real’ guitarists know that a guitar’s genuine excitement is best earned via the more personal connection of the player plus the resonant wooden body of an acoustic. Decades ...

From cabaret to Western country to blues to pre-19th-century composers, the Beatles’ eclectic musical tastes certainly helped color their unique style. Such was the case for “Blackbird,” the third ...

In the new feature, the team at McCartney’s official website noted that Paul had revealed that “Blackbird” was inspired by the Johann Sebastian Bach piece “Bourrée in E Minor.” They then asked him if ...