It was a decade of grunge, pop, hip-hop, R&B, and everything in between. Join us as we count down our picks for the most ...

Ahead of his encore appearance at this weekend's Coachella festival, here's a rundown of the pop superstar's biggest chart ...

Joni Mitchell isn’t the kind of artist that people need to reinterpret all that often. Her songs are incredibly malleable when you look at them on the surface, but if you look at how Counting Crows ...

The electric guitar is the alpha instrument in rock music, but there have been plenty of great acoustic songs as well.

Just when you thought the 1980s were over, these 1990s bands brought the music of the decade back for another round. At times, the desire for a '90s band to turn the clock back 10 or so years has been ...

Spring is here! Kind of, anyway - the days certainly seem to be getting brighter, even if the weather hasn't quite settled down yet. With another big release landing on the decks this week - that'd be ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

One of the most surreal scenes in Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s hit vampire movie, featured Miles Caton playing the blues on an acoustic guitar as a crowded dancehall sways around him. As he plays, icons of ...

Looking back, 1986 doesn't seem to be a pivotal year in music history. Throughout the year, new artists emerged, veterans were still a presence on the charts, and the top records of the year featured ...

When Ed Sheeran or Taylor Swift take to the stage, they primarily play steel-string acoustic guitars. As Les Paul said, if you’re a pianist, you’re stuck behind the piano, and if you play the sax, you ...

Another song list! This one is a personal favorite of mine, because it means I get to spend a lot of time with artists I like covering other artist’s songs. Last December, Paste crowned Merce Lemon’s ...

Shane Parish first came on my radar about a year and a half ago when he released his gorgeous fingerstyle guitar interpretation of Aphex Twin's "Avril 14th." He's continued to release beautiful music ...