A look at different examples of recording artists who have pivoted to a new musical genre at some point in their career. Last month, Andre 3000 made one of the most notable left turns in modern music ...

When we think of powerful pop and rock ‘n’ roll, we typically imagine an instrument that can make a lot of noise: guitars, bass, drums, even a growling saxophone if you’re in the right mood (or decade ...

A vulture-bone flute discovered in a European cave is likely the world's oldest recognizable musical instrument and pushes back humanity's musical roots, a new study says. Found with fragments of ...

Theater director Mary Zimmerman doesn’t do small and restrained. If she ever took on kitchen-sink naturalism, you could bet that the faucet would explode into a fountain and make a pool of the stage.

A flute had never achieved any semblance of celebrity until last Wednesday, when a flute named Sasha Flute launched her very own Instagram page and promptly racked up 40,000 followers. During an AMA, ...

It’s a medieval torture device that was used – once upon a more primitive time – for publicly shaming bad musicians and other disturbers of the peace. The contraption, which is essentially a heavy ...