Let’s be real. This wouldn’t be a list of incredible instrumental rock music moments without mentioning the 1976 song “Eruption” by Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen was the OG guitar hero in many respects, ...

If there seems to be an air of pretension among aficionados of jazz and classical music, psychological research is giving them good reason. A new study published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences ...

The holiday season is here again, and it is by turns a happy, hectic, and occasionally humdrum occasion — humdrum (not just for Scrooge) undoubtedly because variety is sometimes lacking. To be sure, ...

Today’s pop music is so dependent on the human voice—whether singing or rapping—that it’s hard to imagine a time when instrumentals could be mainstream hits. In fact, no instrumental has topped the ...

The shred, math-rock and prog-metal guitarists pushing technical boundaries and taking instrumental guitar in thrilling new directions When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Are we all imagining the same thing when we listen to music, or are our experiences hopelessly subjective? In other words, is music a truly universal language? To investigate those questions, an ...

When you listen to music, your brain processes this in a different way than when you’re listening to someone speak. So where does that leave songs? In a new study, researchers found that there is a ...