Every once in a while, a single instrument arrives and rewrites the rules. Not just for music, but for culture itself. Think about it. A strip of brass and a few keys gave birth to jazz. A solid block ...

Exactly 61 years ago today, one of the most recognizable songs of the Motown era reached No. 1 for the very first time.

BUILT ON 25 YEARS OF REAL LIFE AND BACKED BY A NASHVILLE DREAM TEAM, “WHAT I KNOW NOW” IS NOW AT COUNTRY RADIO AND ...

Review: Soul Jazz dial up the mid-90s stove power with Junglist!, mapping the momentous moment when UK rave primordium met reggae fire. Sitting tight in the label's long run of scene-defining ...

To be fully transparent, this was initially going to be a very different essay. I first set out to chronicle Joni Mitchell’s transformation from a folk visionary to a jazz voyager; a story of ...

Imagine your guitar gets stolen at a gig, only for it to turn up almost 20 years later in the hands of another hugely famous musician? Well, this is a reality for The Cribs guitarist Ryan Jarman. The ...

Diana Crandall is a deputy editor of automation at Forbes Marketplace. With a master's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California and a background in marketing, she combines ...

Anthony Jackson, the acclaimed session bassist whose inventive playing anchored classic recordings like The O’Jays’ “For the Love of Money,” has died at the age of 73. An official cause of death was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...

Paul McCartney - The Beatle and the Bass will follow the fan-led The Lost Bass Project campaign to recover the Hofner 500/1 bass guitar, which went missing in 1972 and was used on early Beatles songs ...

A legendary guitar personally customized and once wielded by arena-rock icon Eddie Van Halen is hitting the auction block at Sotheby’s in October. Its estimate? A whopping $2 million–$3 million. And ...

When Ernie Isley laid down his fuzzier-than-fuzzy “That Lady” solo in 1973, which appeared on The Isley Brothers' 1973 record, 3 + 3, people were blown away. So blown away, in fact, that many didn’t ...