Randy Meisner, a founding member of the Eagles who added high harmonies to such favorites as “Take It Easy” and “The Best of ...

Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Al Harlow, who now lives in Roberts Creek, was the founding bassist of the ...

The punk pioneer tells GW about his “point and shoot” playing, the CBGB scene’s “misfits and renegades” – and why one pickup ...

Johnny Venus has spent years moving through music in company—beside WowGr8 in EARTHGANG, among the shape-shifting collective ...

Bluegrass, Americana and roots music will fill the El Dorado County Fairgrounds Oct. 16-18 as the Hangtime Music Festival ...

The former R.E.M. frontman has been working for years on his debut solo album. With producer Andrew Watt, he's finally in the home stretch.

Erin Enderlin has been writing songs for as long as she can remember. Her narratives stop listeners in their tracks.

I love buying a guitar when I’m about to go into a session at work, because then it makes you play or write a song ...

My first encounter with this album was on an LP record.At the time, I was using a truly "seasoned" record player I had inherited from my father. This thing was quite temperamental, and it had a ...

I saw R.E.M. for the first time the night I graduated high school in 1981, when I took myself and my fake ID to a club in Mt.

From forming two adolescent bands with his older brother (with whom he often butted heads), to contributing three tracks to the infamous first Milli Vanilli album All or Nothing (only to have those ...

According to Rolling Stone’s definitive ranking from earlier this year, “Purple Rain” by Prince is the greatest guitar solo ever recorded. The ’80s funk sensation often appears at the top of any ...