This bad rep is entirely unjustified, however, since, regardless of whether you're a composer, songwriter, producer or DJ, shoring up your musical knowledge with a smattering of grassroots theory can ...

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A day before Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard’s 'Tall Tales' arrives, the duo have shared the uncharacteristically upbeat new ...

What was meant to be a monument to a great art form turns out to be an absurdity of a museum-like Hall that wants to be all ...

Bob Dylan, 83, headlines the Outlaw Music Festival with Willie Nelson, stirring memories of generations of music fans while making new ones.

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The Zombies are the subject of a new documentary. Today, we hear from Blunstone, the group's lead singer. "I tend to sing sad songs better than happy-go-lucky songs," he said in this 1998 interview.

The first thing is, of course, you write a tune and it’s got a melody, chord changes and a groove ... Like, ‘Give me a tempo, give me a groove. Major key? Minor key? Happy?

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