The Waterloo Center for the Arts is hosting a new art and music festival featuring live alternative music, artist vendors, food trucks and skate demonstrations.

Any band can spend years trying to hone their sound, but sometimes their hit songs don't do the best sales pitch for new fans. Read more here ...

Albums from Elton John, Tracy Chapman, Mary J. Blige and the cast of “Hamilton” are among the new inductees to the National ...

Never Come Down, a bluegrass band based in Portland, Oregon, who performs April 11 and 12 at the Egyptian Theatre, formed seven years ago in a practical manner. “Our guitar player Joe (Suskind) landed ...

Reginald Kenneth Dwight was a 20-year-old session musician when he applied for a job at a London record label, and was paired ...

Their best songs, like “I Want You (Fever),” prize the energy of the decade over dutiful re-creation, sounding thoroughly alive and of the moment. From the opening screech of distorted guitar ...

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and riffs instead of just strumming chords. This talent was all the more remarkable because, at the time, few African-American women played guitar. Nubin’s guitar style was influenced by her mother’s ...

Is this the very saddest of all Smiths songs? Yes, we rather think it is ... from a band better known for their darker side. And while its mandolin origins drive the song’s chords, melody, and reason ...

He played banjo, ukulele, and mandolin on a few of the songs on ... and the chorus has three chords. Songs like this tend to be among my favorites, giving room for improvision when playing live.” ...

Let's explore the many elements of music that go into making a hit song...that ONLY has 2 chords! Stevie did it, so did Fleetwood Mac, Bruce Springsteen, Bill Withers, Santana and so many more!