In a notable achievement, Faruque Hossain, also known as Shuvo, the lead guitarist of the legendary Bangladeshi band Vikings, ...

Last February, a Brooklyn-based shoegaze band called Crate released their debut single, a blissed-out guitar-spiral called ...

Yawners, the Madrid-based band led by Elena Nieto, make extremely hooky and fired-up pop-punk, the kind of fuzz-guitar music that makes a sugar rush feel like an adrenaline surge. Around these parts, ...

Singer Leonard Patton and his frequent musical collaborator, pianist Aimee Nolte, and will team up at Patton’s La Mesa jazz ...

A stone-cold pedalboard classic celebrates 50 trips round the sun with a collectable edition that reminds us what the fuss is ...

Today’s market is mired somewhat in freemium grindy hell, but gems nonetheless abound. Our list includes the very best ...

Have you ever had a song stuck in your head but no way to bring it to life? Or maybe you’ve dreamed of composing music but ...

April Bowlby became a household name for her role as Kandi, the lovable and ditsy second wife of Alan Harper, on the hit CBS ...

Mike Ratledge, who died yesterday aged 81, did exactly that. In the 49 years since he left Soft Machine, somebody, somewhere ...

With the 20th anniversary this week, a Phoenix fan explores how Bloc Party’s ‘Silent Alarm’ shape and informed his own life.

A list of “alternate” power pop albums; in other words, albums that don’t show up on the usual rankings lists, but that could be argued as power pop, however obscurely.

The MXR Layers is a new looper pedal from MXR that focusses on textural pad creation and sound design, creating huge, cascading multi-layered sustain from your guitar. While these are use-cases that ...