Very few genres utilize only acoustic instruments. As a matter of fact, the only ones that come to mind are bluegrass, traditional and Celtic folk, and Indigenous music. However, even in those genres, ...

Michael Stock has been hosting “Folk & Acoustic Music” on WLRN, South Florida Public Radio for over 30 years. Michael was introduced to folk music back in high school when a teacher at Miami Beach ...

Forget electronics, pyrotechnics, large crowds, big venues, and five-piece bands, because all you need at the end of the day to make a great song is an acoustic guitar and great lyrics. Now, are all ...

Central Arkansas country band Midnight South has only been around about 18 months, but the five-piece has made plenty of progress in that time. The group — singer-guitarist Matt Sammons, guitarist Sam ...

“MTV Unplugged” was arguably at its height in 1993. That year, the series of intimate acoustic performances featured stars like Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots and Neil Young, building on era-defining ...

Led Zeppelin started as a psychedelic blues band in the last 1960s. It didn’t take long for them to prove they had a soft side with their more delicate work in the folk and country genres. They never ...

Imagine, if you will, a punk band, a rock band and a comedic hip-hop group without mics or amps, performing with just the power of voice and instruments. That is the idea behind Pure Acoustic: a night ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The composer Matthew Sheeran, brother of the pop star Ed Sheeran, discusses how he translated microtonal electronic music for a chamber orchestra. By ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

The Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band only covered the holiday classic “Christmas Time’s A-Comin’” once, but thanks to the band’s mandolin/dobro/banjo/vocalist ...