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In 2025, the best rock music radiated self-assurance. That sometimes meant staking a claim to micro-genre legacies, but just as often meant leaning hard into idiosyncrasies. This year’s best and ...

We take a look at the arias, movements, songs and dances whose fame has outshone the larger works in which they first ...

Welcome to our 16th annual Violinist.com Holiday Gift Guide! Gift-giving is one of the great joys of the holiday season, and ...

The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...

Rachel Jones considers poetry’s role in uplifting the marginalised voice ...

Kaukonen had his first musical success playing guitar in the late 1960s psychedelic rock era with Jefferson Airplane. In 1969 ...

The Royal Opera House of Musical Arts came up trumps at the weekend with two sold-out, stellar performances from one of the ...

Lowell High School musicians will play next to the pros during the upcoming Grand Rapids Symphony Side by Side concert.

And the tradition continues. Comedians still come to the desert to perform, workshop new material, or just get away. Serial ...

While picking a high-end headphone, you know you can expect a certain quality of audio and a set of features. With the JBL ...