The harmonica and synthesizer-driven theme song was a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1975 and remained ...

How instrumental hits topped the charts from the ’50s through the ’70s and why they fell off—well, except for Kenny G. We're sorry, but something went wrong ...

I remember the exact moment I became fascinated with instrumental singles. As I got ready for school one morning in the early 1970s, Red Alix, the longtime morning host on CJOB/Winnipeg, came off the ...

Country music has countless iconic breaks. Revisit three country songs that have instrumental breaks that steal the show.

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 ...

In the April 2011 issue of SPIN, we caught up with Explosions in the Sky, the Texas-based band who’ve taken wordless music to unexpected heights. But they’re hardly the first to rock with their traps ...

The songs on Quilt's third album, Plaza, were stitched together from old voice memos and lyrics written at various times throughout the Boston band's seven-year lifespan. The result, however, feels ...

"Rise" to salute this legendary artist and record company co-founder. By Paul Grein Herb Alpert turns 90 today, having accomplished more in his lifetime than most people even dream about. His greatest ...

A British-based music scouting platform which uses artificial intelligence to assess artists' commercial potential has struck a landmark deal that will see one of China's biggest technology companies ...