Loud-soft dynamics are easy for instrumental rock acts to overplay. Over the course of a live set, they become predictable as musicians coax quiet verses then pound through bone-jarring choruses ad ...

Over their decade-plus career, Chicago instrumental trio Russian Circles have toured with Tool, collaborated with Chelsea Wolfe and won comparisons to Mogwai, associations that all make sense when you ...

A Soulful Sound focuses on the traditional music of the Germans from Russia. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, thousands of German-speaking peoples established major German settlements in Russia.

I dunno if this is coincidence or design, shade or tribute, expertly executed synergy or pure random chance, but rather amazingly, at roughly the same time that Chicago post-metal instrumental ...

The twenty-eight-year-old Russian musician Kate Shilonosova loves the sound of the trains in Moscow_._ Last summer, she boarded the elektrichka with a synthesizer keyboard, an amp, and a headset, and ...

The instrumental and vocal work of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the 20th century’s most acclaimed composers, will be celebrated in a special concert festival at 3 p.m. today, April 1 ...

"The Rising Stars Concert" took place in Dhaka, showcasing the talents of three promising Russian musicians. The event featured soulful piano compositions paired with operatic performances centered on ...

The lead singer of Grammy-nominated Bering Strait knows that the spotlight, as it does for most novelties, will probably fade on a group of native Russians playing American country music. But Natasha ...

For anyone who loves free-form avant-jazz, Hyphen Dash’s new album, Basement 626, will strike the proverbial experimental chord. Over its 17 tracks, drummer Myshko Birchenko and guitarist/loops player ...