Today in extended chords 101, we look at 11th chords – both minor and major – and explain how these “harmonically dense” ...

Wong explains how outlining notes in the chord progression helps find a solo that's melodically on-point and just what the song calls for ...

I like Cindy Lee. That’s real wrist-jangling music done up in nocturnal drag and noisy whateverthefuck. The songs are like ...

From Depeche Mode to Aerosmith, we examine those artists who’ve managed to successfully pivot and reach an entirely new audience ...

—Roaring 20s Speakeasy, Jan. 23, 7 p.m., Sutter Theater Center for the Arts, 754 Plumas Street, Yuba City. In conjunction with Full Circle Coffee House, a 21 and plus only event with special coffee ...

When naming complex extended chords, there are various conventions and abbreviations. These are helpful when reading or writing a chord chart, but can seem like mysterious jargon to the uninitiated.

Bob Weir was not an obvious candidate for one of the biggest rock stars in the world, but as the most visible steward of the ...

Arctic Monkeys and Damon Albarn tell us about working on Help 2, an all-star charity album for War Child UK, which helps ...

I really don’t feel that it’s all necessary anymore,” Morton Feldman told an interviewer in 1972. “And so what I try to bring ...

Though the Durutti Column had been a disaster, Wilson was fascinated by the guitarist, who admired punk’s willfulness even though his own musical taste tended toward jazz, blues, and the classical ...