Bruno Mars' new Hot 100 leader 'When I Was Your Man' joins Adele's 2011 smash 'Someone Like You' as the only piano-and-vocal-exclusive No. 1s in the chart's 54-year history. By Gary Trust Amid a boom ...

It's almost unheard of for pop radio to play a song as sparsely-produced as the Hot 100's current leader. But, just how rare is it? By Gary Trust Hello Gary! I was amazed (and very, very happy) that ...

In rock music, the guitar is the instrument that usually stays front and center. Often, lead vocalists accompany themselves on guitar, with their bandmates providing vocal and instrumental support in ...

When one is beaten down, hard up, and down on their luck, there is no better place to find comfort than in music. Particularly melancholic piano ballads that sonically articulate the emotions that ...

That’s the question Just Joe asked as he sat down at a piano, performing the 1999 nu-metal song with a tenderness equal to the anger in Fred Durst’s voice more than two decades ago. The result is a ...

There isn’t a dull moment over the course of this fine EP even if the music that washes over you is hushed and almost solemn and haunting. Its rootsy folk instrumentation happens to establish the ...

Next month, pop-punk survivors Sum 41 will return with a new album called Order in Decline. We've already heard the band's metal-tinged "A Death in the Family" and "Out for Blood," and now they've ...

Ronnie Radke, what have you done?! The Falling in Reverse frontman just flipped the script on a rock classic, turning Papa Roach's "Last Resort" into an emotional powderkeg of a piano ballad, and ...