Bob Weir's guitar playing made an indelible contribution to the Grateful Dead. It may have been even more radical than you think.

Publisher’s note: This My Turn originally appeared in the Tuesday, July 13, 2015, edition of the Lassen County Times. I love the crazy things I get to ponder because I have a musician’s sensibilities.

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“I’m a student of hooks,” the exceedingly prolific Guided by Voices frontman Robert Pollard tells Rolling Stone. If you’re familiar with GBV’s 40-plus-album catalog, that’s an understatement. “That ...

For some reason it always makes sense to me to have some sort of instrumental atmospheric introduction to the album, so set the scene somehow… And I was playing about on an old synth one day, and this ...

A video of Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma helping a student with guitar chords during his visit to a village school went viral on social media. The short clip earned him widespread online ...