This week we're mixing in some new, exclusive live performances from the acoustic guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela. Which prompts me to ask for your favorite instrumental pieces that feature the acoustic ...

Back in 1981, Nick Webb and Simon James, two enterprising British music school students, decided to start an instrumental acoustic jazz band focused on dueling steel- and nylon-string guitars. Mind ...

Stanley Greenthal, Tracy Moore and Steve Davison will be performing on Wednesday, May 14, at 7 p.m., at the Lopez Center Church, for an unforgettable evening of Acoustic Artistry, on six- and ...

You can count Heart's Nancy Wilson among the musicians looking to pay tribute musically to the late guitar icon Eddie Van Halen. While speaking with All Things Considered's Dave Lawrence, Wilson ...

ACOUSTIC WEEK Unlike blues, it's easy to trace the time and place when country music came of age. The year was 1927 and the moment was when Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family separately visited ...

Acoustic and classical guitars look very similar, both made of wood, both with six strings, and both with the familiar guitar shape with a curved body and long neck. But there are key differences that ...

For at least a decade now, rap beats have been getting fiercer every year. The biggest producers in the genre largely abandoned traditional acoustic instrumentation, instead embracing the abrasive ...