The lightsaber is one of cinema's most iconic props. Its origin traces back to a chance discovery in a secondhand camera shop ...

A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend.

If you have a trained ear—or just a strong sense of music and tone—it’s easy to hear the difference between a cheap instrument and a well-made model built to resonate across the world's greatest ...

The name of the United Kingdom’s 2026 Eurovision entry song has been revealed – with musician Look Mum No Computer hoping it’ll be enough to avoid those dreaded words: “nil points”. For its 70th ...

On a snowy night in 1961, Bennett Cerf, one of the founders of the publisher Random House, excused himself from a dinner party to watch his favorite television show. His hosts, the writer Robert Penn ...

The Off-Broadway hit percussion show that taught generations of drummer wannabes how to turn everyday objects into musical instruments is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a national tour. The ...

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In “Nothing Random,” her rousing biography of Bennett Cerf, Gayle Feldman conjures an era when a glamorous publishing figure could be a household name. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an ...