Metalachi, Celina Rescott and The Embers and Foxtide are among the bands playing San Diego this week.

Equally respected in any musical community he is a part of, Alex Skolnick has built up an impressive résumé over the decades. Heavy metal and jazz never seem to have much of a Venn diagram kind of ...

“The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.

THE most famous riff in rock is the 3 1/2 -chord skull buster that stalks Deep Purple’s 1972 “Smoke on the Water” -- a branding moment in the infancy of heavy metal. And as Deep Purple’s set at last ...

Earlier today, NPR Music published one of my pieces for Take Five, our weekly jazz feature, called Blast Beat Improv: Metallic Free Jazz. I've come to subtitle it "Or How I Stopped Worrying And ...

No score yet, be the first to add. Their post-reunion LP, 2008’s Traced in Air, thrived on a similarly ambitious mix of power and prowess, though the aging members Cynic had tempered the ambitious ...

SAN DIEGO — A 16-year-old San Diego drummer is proving that musicians don't have to choose just one genre, combining his passion for deathcore with classical jazz training to become a well-rounded ...

Something other than music and food will greet New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival attendees this weekend: metal detectors. In a concession to modern-day reality, all fest-goers will have to pass ...

Jazz guitar-style licks decorated a central section of the tune, sandwiched between dark-metal figures in octaves (an Opeth trademark—the octaves are played by Akerfeldt; guitarist Akesson, a lead ...

Well, of course it isn’t, really. They don’t sound alike on their outer layers. And their audiences don’t overlap. From the evidence of hundreds of jazz shows I’ve seen all over the country this past ...

His newest creation will be having a full concert performance next week at Nublu in the East Village. In between all of his myriad responsibiilities, Mr. Berger found a few minutes to sit with ...

Jazz music, woodworking and the pummeling sounds of thrash metal. To the casual observer, one of these things is not like the other, but to Nick Menza, they had one thing in common: He loved them. The ...