You could zero in on whatever you needed to focus on. For each song, I had a Read Me document with different YouTube videos that I wanted to watch, and then I would have lyrics with chords ...

Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on ...

Todd Rundgren was done with tribute tours after David Bowie and the Beatles. Burt Bacharach brought him back. Why? "Almost no ...

It would frankly be silly at this point not to get Jack Black to release his vocal chords if ... in the mid-80s. See, the joke is, “rock” means both rock music AND a thing you use in Minecraft!

See Figure 1 below ... ambiguous. Do the chords serve any kind of harmonic function? This may be the first article in the In Theory column where I can’t tell you definitively what key the ...

Fingerpickin’ under the lights, Welles sang about the company’s business model — one of his most popular songs: “You paid their ... about — but with four chords and Wikipedia-mouthed ...

“I can’t believe she puts some of these things in her songs.” Moroney’s appeal isn’t just emotion and lyrics ... see how Moroney is doing over the holidays. “She was like, ‘Are you ...

Yet the film has plenty of the archival footage of Mayfield you want to see: concert clips ... That’s what gave his social-protest lyrics such a personal dimension. When you listen to ...

“I can’t find middle C on the piano,” he said with a laugh, “but, you see, I can hear.” A prolific composer with a strong, exacting melodic sense, Hart conveys his ideas to his ...

Lauren Mayberry of the Scottish synthpop band Chvrches says she wanted the songs on her debut solo album, “Vicious Creatures,” to be personal, but the emotions that surfaced still caught her ...

He played in screamo and hardcore bands in high school, contributed keys to an “insane” (his words) Richmond-based punk band called the You Go Girls ... which can’t seem to stay in print.