“It Might Get Loud” tracks the guitar’s practical mystique and the communion that three musicians have found with their instruments.

Something fascinating is happening at the borders of classical music and pop: Young musicians are searching for repertory in the pop avant-garde.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tool, Animal Collective, Santigold, Arctic Monkeys and others provided bouncy beats, psychedelic grooves and doomy metal on Lollapalooza's dynamic day two.

For baby boomers, the rock happening remains a community in the consciousness.

Mrs. Hutchins designed and built an entire family of violins, eight instruments proportional in size and pitch known collectively as the new violin family or the violin octet.

Stew and Heidi Rodewald are returning to the theater world without straying from their indie roots.

New accounts of the music festival by Pete Fornatale, a longtime New York radio broadcaster, and Michael Lang, one of Woodstock’s organizers.

When the New Rochelle Opera was started in the mid-1980s, Camille Coppola not only produced and directed the shows, she also sang all its leading soprano roles.

The year 1969 was crammed with events that have lived on as symbolic battlegrounds in the culture wars that have dominated our country’s politics since then.

Lollapalooza day-one highlights included Kings of Leon, Depeche Mode, Kid Cudi and Gaslight Anthem.

The Big Surprise Tour, a roots-music extravaganza anchored by Old Crow Medicine Show, brought a hootenanny to the Beacon Theater on Thursday night.

The hip-hop duo LMFAO gave a spastic, aerobic, unerringly entertaining small-hours performance at the Highline Ballroom on Friday morning.

The drummer Tyshawn Sorey and his new trio played their first gig ever on Wednesday at the Stone.

For the first time in recent memory the most vital new soul music addresses particularly adult concerns, with a particularly adult sound.

Mr. DeVille’s adventurous forays into rhythm and blues, Cajun music and salsa made him one of the most original figures of the New York punk scene of the 1970s.

The Nazis loved Wagner, but they also loved Beethoven. Whither the protests?

Which hip-hop artists would we add to the list of MTV Video Music Award nominees if we could? Find out in this video ...

David Cook was joined by fellow "American Idol" vets Kris Allen and Adam Lambert for a version of Fleetwood Mac's "Little Lies" for "Good Morning America"'s concert series on Friday.

"New Moon" newcomer Kiowa Gordon talked to us about his wolf character in the upcoming "Twilight" sequel. "He saves humans from vampires, basically," the actor said.

Jay-Z, Kanye West and Rihanna filmed a video for Jay's "Run This Town" in New York on Thursday.