Stereogum's renowned writer Tom Breihan and its founder/editor Scott Lapatine tracked down Popper's recent kvetchings, ...

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs with prominent harmonica usage. When bands known more for hard-charging noise than toe-tapping hooks compose ...

Don't be fooled by the harmonica. Sure, more musically inclined cowboys used to whip 'em out around the campfire, and cultures from Eastern to Western and everything in between have laced their ...

In the mid-1800s, a German harmonica manufacturer named Hohner started exporting his product to North America. Being relatively inexpensive, relatively easy to play and extremely portable, the ...

To broach his uncertain future, Johnny Sansone first had to relinquish his familiar past. Photo by Timothy WhiteJohnny Sansone's new CD is an early contender for one of the best local albums of the ...

Several decades ago, Blues Traveler was among the new generation of young jam bands following in the mighty footsteps of the Grateful Dead. As Blues Traveler celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, ...

“Classic Harmonica Blues,” out on May 21, features 20 tracks by the blues’ greatest harmonica players. Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings In the early 20th-century, southern black ...

Kaine is square, earnest, affable, and plays the harmonica. Dropping by Stephen Colbert‘s Late Show Thursday night, Kaine was happy to embarrass his children and sit in with house band, Jon Batiste ...

Hear Brandon Bailey perform two songs live in the NPR studio. The harmonica is a staple of American blues, beginning with the Memphis jug bands of the 1920s. In the 1960s, blues-influenced artists ...

Orgy Of The Damned finds the GNR guitarist tackling blues standards with an all-star cast of vocalists – watch Slash rock a Bigsby-equipped ES-335 in the video for Killing Floor now When you purchase ...