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 ...

Wielding naught but his signature Ernie Ball Music Man Majesty, Petrucci has been studying different types of scales and ...

“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 ...

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 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 ...

At the core of Eilish’s rare talent is that unique whispery hush of a voice that packs mighty power when conveying every emotional nuance of her lyrics ... group hug. You can see fans trying ...

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.

I’m not a kid and I can’t have five-year gaps between ... I was like, ‘Why do you like this? These guitar players are playing like three chords poorly. And the singer was just screaming ...