Pick it up and play it: why we make music
A sober, 52-year-old Kurt Cobain leads Nirvana out for a world tour in support of their 11th studio album. Buddy Holly and Richie Valens choose to ...
Practise makes perfect: is 10,000 hours really enough?
If you have even a loose grasp on your rock history, then you know that Bruce Springsteen did not roar onto the scene fully-formed with the 1975 ...
Uniting to make noise
For performers, the music industry is a universe of sweltering basements, vaulted concert halls and darkened jazz bars. There may even be sports ...
The Sound of Humanity: meet Kirk Whalum
It is a song that even those with only a passing interest in music will know intimately. 1992. Whitney Houston. The Bodyguard soundtrack. A ...