I went to my first show at the Lantern tonight. And what a show it was! The two featured bands were called The Future Kings of Nowhere and The Wading Girl. Both were incredibly talented, and ...

Trying to stand out as a musician in the 1980s was like trying to be the weirdest clown at clown school. And we mean that in the best of ways! The decade was full of strange and wonderful stuff. So, ...

Movies set in the past often rely on music to tell us just where we are. Most, but not all, of the composers of this year's period pieces felt the obligation to reflect time and place. For Ridley ...

This rare instrument, called a daxophone, sounds eerily similar to a human voice when played. There's something haunting ...

Based on a True Story composer Sherri Chung brought a typewriter to the orchestra to perform her score during Deadline’s Sound & Screen live-music event. The typewriter was just one of the unusual ...

Haymes calls himself a “utility infielder” in Ramblin Jug Stompers, responsible for many of the unusual sounds that don’t come from the typical stringed instruments in acoustic bands. At the band’s ...

That’s what we wanted to showcase here below. We wanted to dive into three songs from back in the day that took advantage of whatever was around to make their songs stand out. Indeed, these are three ...