When we think about rock music, we can agree it's a genre most commonly plied and voiced via the instrument of electric guitar. While rock and the guitar are not mutually exclusive, and the insights ...

With 154 frets, 80 fingers, 51 strings, 40 pounds, sixteen hands, and eight necks, it’s doubtful that Dan Smith will teach you how to play the Rock Ock. But it sure is fun to watch! [Hyper Vocal] ...

It’s a sound you’ll never forget! Very few rock bands feature the sitar as a primary instrument, but for Montreal’s Elephant Stone, playing at Trans Pecos in Bushwick on Oct. 22, the classical Indian ...

Like most people these days, sound artist Ellen Fullman is sheltering in place. But she has an unusual roommate: a massive installation she calls the Long String Instrument. Filling the ground floor ...

Game|Life will have its complete take on Rock Band 3 (and Power Gig: Rise of the Six-String, for that matter) on Monday. In the meantime, writer Christopher Null offers his positive impressions on the ...

Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...