Few musical styles carry such enduring and hoary cliches as instrumental rock. The term may bring to mind Woodstock-era prog-rock groups like Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Yes charging off on extended ...

Tortoise’s music, though, remains as unpredictable as it is undefinable — especially, for the musicians. Compositional ideas are swapped, enhanced and overhauled from one member to the next. In short, ...

Woodenhead's Jimmy Robinson, left, Fran Comiskey, Mark Whitaker and Paul Clement. The band celebrates its 40th anniversary at Tipitina's on April 2, 2015. After 40 years as a band, onstage ...

The Montgomery Area Musicians Association (MAMA) encourages musicians to develop and perform their original music. This week we’re meeting an all original Instrumental Progressive Rock band called ...

Although often lumped into the category of post-rock, This Will Destroy You (due tonight at Larimer Lounge) from San Marcos, Texas, is more rooted in outright instrumental rock music with more than ...

Steve Marion isn’t delicate. Wiry, would be a better word maybe, but the name fits once you’ve heard the overwhelming tenderness and wide-eyed joy that comes through in the music Marion makes under ...

Dave Burgess, the musician, songwriter and producer who co-wrote the instrumental rock-and-roll hit “Tequila” and founded the ...

Today’s pop music is so dependent on the human voice—whether singing or rapping—that it’s hard to imagine a time when instrumentals could be mainstream hits. In fact, no instrumental has topped the ...

Indie rock shows can be ascetic, Apollonian affairs, too many people too hip to move, crossed arms, feigned disinterest. But all people love to get off, whether indie, emo, or hair-swinging metalhead.

Celebrate contemporary Christmas with revamped holiday classics performed by Mannheim Steamroller at the American Bank Center. The group will perform modern interpretations of traditional Christmas ...

Twenty years ago today, one of the most influential guitarists in the history of rock music died at the age of 76.

Perhaps nothing could make someone feel quite as lowly and earthbound as driving through rural Kansas in a Ford Taurus. But on a warm night in 2008, under an array of stars you can only see when away ...