"You have to let music take you over, put ego aside, be a clean conductor – in the electrical sense."

"I believe the emergence and explosion of jazz in the last century is one of the pinnacles of human achievement."

"A fugue is like a canon, in that it is usually based on one theme which gets played in different voices and different…"

"To give an idea of how extraordinary a six-part fugue is, in the entire Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach, containing for…"

"As legendary bands in the scene continued to mature musically and grow away from the genres that they became known fo…"

"At this point in heavy-music history, the breakdown is as much a building block of metal as the thrash gallop, the bl…"

"The 1970s was arguably the single decade of the 20th century when recorded music was most central to culture. There w…"

"The 1970s: It was the decade that punk and disco landed like a bludgeon against the bourgeoise stronghold on the arts…"