THE jazz trio instrumentation of alto sax, bass and drums that Channel Three brought to the Jazz Bakery on Tuesday is both challenging and stimulating for the players. With no harmony instrument such ...

It goes without saying that Nita Strauss knows a thing or two about good guitar riffs, and recently the Alice Cooper electric guitar hero sat down with Guitar World to run through the five riffs that ...

Band affiliated with Baltimore's Wham City collective uses melodic pop-punk riffs wrapped in toylike synths and effects pedals to express an uncanny melancholy. Save this story Save this story Like ...

Chena’s riff-writing skills were put to the ultimate test in Musician Mansion, constructing songs in a few hours with people she’d just met. Needless to say, she came prepared, and rose to the ...

Everybody complains about "earworms;" no one does anything about them. But British scientists have been studying the maddening effects when a pop song keeps popping into your head — and won't depart.

At this point, we call Napalm Death "grindcore" out of necessity. For several decades, the band has innovated within itself and outside of extreme metal, culminating in last year's sonically ...