Happy 2026, y'all. It feels almost unfathomable that we're already in 2026. Some days, it feels like just yesterday we watched the likes of Chris Stapleton's iconic breakout at the 2015 CMA Awards, ...

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When "Trigger" is done, Willie Nelson is done. There may not be a more famous guitar in the music world than Willie Nelson’s trusty Trigger. The living country music legend has played the same Martin ...

When Swedish metal icons Meshuggah unleashed their mighty, low down, single-string riffs on Nothing in 2002, the meaning of the word heavy was henceforth redefined. From then, the 8-string guitar has ...

On the last episode of All Songs Considered for 2025, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich takes host Robin Hilton through an ...

England Dan & John Ford Coley bookended their decade-long career with the album Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jive, which features a ...

Here are our favorite South Carolina albums of 2025 that didn't make the Top 20 list, as part of our Best of SC Music edition ...

In a dozen short stories, writers ponder What a Song Can Do: 12 Riffs on the Power of Music, edited by Jennifer Armstrong. In Ron Koertge's ""Variations on a Theme,"" nine high school band members ...

Boston-based trombonist Michael Prentky will tour his debut album, sad boy:ADD:apocalypse, across the Northeast U.S. and ...

The U.S. attacked Islamic State sites across Syria in retaliation for the killings of two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter last Saturday. Fighter jets, attack helicopters and artillery ...

Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl, Disney's next CEO, Keith Richards' health, America 250, Trump & the midterms, Nick Reiner's ...