Fifty years ago this week, on April 24, 1976, the lights went down in New York’s Town Hall for the world premiere of a single piece by Steve Reich called “Music for 18 Musicians.” Roughly an hour ...

Steve Vai was just 21 when he made his San Diego concert debut in 1981 at the Fox Theater as the “stunt guitarist” in the band of former Grossmont and Mission Bay high schools student Frank Zappa. At ...

Steve Perry was just a small-town boy who grew up in Hanford, California—the only child of Portuguese-American parents. His dad was a singer and co-owned the local radio station, while his mom was his ...

A new ChatGPT integration with Spotify and a "Prompted Playlists" feature are signals from the music streamer that investing in AI may be the best defense from threats including AI commodification of ...

Steve's Music Store has been a mainstay on Queen Street for nearly 50 years. The store was a pillar in Toronto's music community, a go-to spot to buy a new guitar or for musicians to gather and ...

As he approaches 90, the US composer Steve Reich tells Tom Service about his pride in playing an important part in bringing tonality and pulse back to music If anyone has earnt the right to look back ...

Legendary songwriter and Americana master Steve Earle is bringing his guitar to our hometown this summer. Six String Southern Productions and Scott Carswell Presents announced in a Feb. 17 press ...

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David Porter remembered his longtime Stax Records compatriot Steve Cropper as “a true member of a creative musical family that changed the world of music” in a tribute shared with Rolling Stone.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis is remembering a true music legend — Steve Cropper, whose unmistakable guitar work and songwriting shaped soul music, died Wednesday in Nashville at the age of 84. WREG took a ...

Steve Cropper was never a household name the way Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton are, but he was the guitar hero’s guitar hero. With an instantly identifiable tone, his guitar could sing (the “Play it, ...

An architect of Memphis soul, Cropper made his guitar sing and sting. And as a songwriter, he collaborated on more than a few indelible anthems. By Jon Pareles Terse, taut and intrinsically bluesy — ...