Learn five essential fingerstyle patterns and timeless techniques in Eric Bibb’s blues masterclass

From rich chords to articulate fingerpicking, this tutorial will elevate your acoustic blues vocabulary and deepen your ...

"I could feel the power behind me and it was like being in front of a locomotive." The Swedish metal icons whose biggest hit was so confusing even Metallica's Kirk Hammett ...

It's safe to day that even the most patient music teacher struggle to explain the polyrhythms that provide the backbone of this Meshuggah classic ...
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"I've always never been interested in it because it's a digital synthesizer": Mike Dean shows off the "crazy rare" wavetable synth that everyone wanted in the '80s – and ...

The super-producer and analogue aficionado praises the "messed up" sound of the PPG Wave 2.3, one of the few digital synths ...
The Line of Best Fit

Reference Points: Shabaka

Shabaka guides Jasper Willems through the creative pillars behind Of The Earth, his latest solo album and first on which he fully spreads his wings as a producer. There’s a sense from Shabaka’s ...
Worthplaying

'skate.' Season 3 Will Include New And Improved Features, Updated skate.Pass And More - Trailer

Set in the vibrant city of San Vansterdam, skate. is a multiplayer skateboarding destination offering a massive open world where players discover unique skate spots, land insane tricks and connect - ...
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How to play Before I Knew It on piano: TikTok hit tutorial for beginners

Discover how to play the viral TikTok hit “BEFORE I KNEW IT” on piano with this easy-to-follow tutorial. Designed for ...
The Guardian

The Beach Boys: We Gotta Groove review – box set of lost 70s music has all of Brian Wilson’s turmoil and talent

Spanning 1974-77, this collection shows Wilson was capable of stunning pre-rock’n’roll homage – on the previously unheard Adult/Child – while also writing wayward songs about organic food We Gotta ...
Pitchfork

We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years (Super Deluxe Edition)

Exploring one of their least renowned periods—and featuring the first official release of the lost album Adult/Child—a new box set finds the Beach Boys at their best, worst, and most human. And yet, ...
MusicRadar

“He played it to Motown, and they said, 'No way is Beck getting this song, it's too good’”: Dissecting the musical magic of Superstition, the song Stevie Wonder just ...

Exploring the mechanics of the song which was taken to mega-success by Stevie Wonder - much to Jeff Beck's frustration ...
MOJO Magazine

The Beach Boys – We Gotta Groove Reviewed: For a brief moment, Brian really was back

READ MORE: Al Jardine and Mike Love on Beach Boys Love You: “We loved Brian and we knew what he was capable of…” What makes this combined reckoning of Brian's last, fully-engaged studio albums for The ...
Variety

Beach Boys ‘We Gotta Groove’ Boxed Set Revives Cult Love for Classic ‘Love You’ Album: Producers and Engineers Tell What Went Down in the ‘Brian’s Back’ Era

Well, of course it couldn’t have been a simple pitch in a board room — no boxed set is, in 2026, least of all one devoted to half-century-old material that mostly didn’t sell well in the first place.
The New York Times

What Happens in a Performer’s Brain While Playing Music?

Performances in N.Y.C. The pianist Nicolas Namoradze teamed with neuroscientists for a breakthrough in experiment design. The pianist Nicolas Namoradze wanted to record videos that would visualize how ...