The jangly, chiming sound of acoustic and electric 12-string guitars have played a crucial role in popular music, from blues to rock, pop to folk. 12-string guitars feature six pairs of strings, known ...

“Anything that Leo Kottke ever recorded is one of my top 12 solos. Ah, man, he’s [ whistles ]. He’s very tough and unique, ...

Billy Strings, photo by Stevo Rood Billy Strings rolled into Austin, Texas over the weekend for the final performances in a long year on the road. Even ...

In 2023, as Swift's Eras Tour barreled toward Nashville, three Swifties working inside then-Mayor John Cooper's office saw ...

When "Trigger" is done, Willie Nelson is done. There may not be a more famous guitar in the music world than Willie Nelson’s trusty Trigger. The living country music legend has played the same Martin ...

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On September 12th, Nelson drove down to the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion, in Camden. His band, a four-piece, was dressed all in ...

A gifted Queens rapper (Lexa Gates), a noisy British band (Maruja), a Drake-approved emo songwriter (Julia Wolf), a lo-fi ...

A glance at some of those chart-toppers in 2025, including Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” Sabrina Carpenter ’s “Manchild,” Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” Huntrix’s “Golden” and Taylor Swift ’s “The Fate of ...

Stephen Wilson Jr. has lived many different lives. In case you didn't know, the "I'm A Song" singer hasn't been a singer-songwriter his entire life. At first, he was a boxer – as his father had ...

The KALW Music Team put together a list of their favorite albums released by Bay Area artists, including LaRussell, The Gold ...

Iowa duo Kathryn Severing Fox and Chad Elliott have turned a mutual love of songwriting into a hit album and a growing collection of awards and fans.