Most musicians have a guitar or two at home. Something to pluck along with as you listen to music, something to play a little ditty in between washing the dishes and bedtime. But when you enter a ...

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Spotify's Mixed Playlist feature just got a quiet upgrade, and its new customization tools have boosted it to a new level.

If you haven’t been listening to pop radio in the past few months, you’ve missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends. In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot ...

It happened exactly 36 seconds into the song—a glimpse of the shape of pop to come, a feel of the fabric of the future we now inhabit. The phrase “I can’t break through” turned crystalline, like the ...

This isn't a joke: What do Cher and ExxonMobil have in common? The answer is mathematician Dr. Andy Hildebrand, the inventor of Auto-Tune. Cher's iconic "Believe," which popularized the warbly, ...

Alternate tunings can be a gateway to creative ideas and new textures, but they often require re-orienting yourself with the fretboard. Nashville tuning, however, requires no such effort, as you can ...