Dear Jerry: My recollection is that there were many more instrumental hits in the 1960s before the British Invasion than after, when singing groups became hot. How did the success of those bands ...

It’d be reasonable to assume that there was nothing more to give, that every tape vault everywhere had already been scoured. The download-only tracks which appeared last decade under the banner ...

The 1960s and ‘70s saw a massive rise in studio experimentation that led to some of the weirdest instrumental features to ever grace a reel of tape. To be clear, the instruments themselves aren’t ...

For any kid who picked up an electric guitar in the 1960s, it never took long before they’d take a stab at trying to play “Walk Don’t Run,” the genre-defining surf-rock hit from 1960 popularized by ...

LONDON — John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and many other superstars, has died. He was 90. A ...

The Surfrajettes find audiences wherever they go, even when the gig is nowhere near a beach. “And if there’s a guitar community, they come out,” Surfrajette Shermy Freeman said. “Guitars and surf ...

Few decades can compare to the 1960s, when muscle cars, music and milestones all made huge and lasting impressions on people. From sad times like the 1963 Kennedy assassination to uplifting times like ...

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