Dr. Demento would be so proud. Redmond’s Old Fire House (OFH) Teen Center, long famous for its all-ages rock concerts, now features a Weird Instrument Club, dedicated to adventurous music-making. The ...

I went to my first show at the Lantern tonight. And what a show it was! The two featured bands were called The Future Kings of Nowhere and The Wading Girl. Both were incredibly talented, and ...

RetroFret, a music shop in Gowanus, Brooklyn specializing in “rare and bizarre instruments,” is a true discovery even before you enter the store. You’d never guess that the hodgepodge block Retrofret ...

Imagine going to a concert that recreates the soundscape of a prehistoric swamp, where each instrument in the orchestra is modeled after a different dinosaur. That could eventually be possible with an ...

Diego Stocco forged a niche for himself in the music world by creating sounds using custom-made instruments and unusual sources. His sonic palette includes sounds culled from sources as simple as sand ...

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Tim Kaiser started out playing the guitar, then made the illogical transition to playing the rotary phone. He also plays the rake, the snowmobile part and the talking teddy bear.

A wild exploration of creativity, sound, and fun, showing that even the strangest instruments can be entertaining and musically expressive. I bought some of the strangest musical instruments I could ...

From UFO sounds to Celtic drones, sitar twangs to Tex-Mex accordion, country music occasionally loved to get a little weird. Fiddles and steel guitars may define the genre’s twang, but every so often, ...