At her best, young Chicago singer-guitarist Melody Angel comes on like a one-woman Black Rock Coalition. She updates ideas drawn from blues and old-school rock ‘n’ roll with a hard-rock ferocity that ...

Native music in out-of-the-way parts of the world is fast disappearing. Thousands of songs and drum rhythms handed down through generations of woolly-headed blacks, Oriental priests and court ...

This concert is something of a homecoming for Chicago blues guitarist and singer Melody Angel, who’s wrapping up the first major tour of her career in support of her latest self-released album, Indie ...

Gala music speaks without words: it surrounds the space, softens time, and turns the gathering into something memorable ...

Melody Angel plays like its her last gig. That’s because, for years, the singer and guitarist wasn’t sure if her passion would pay off. Even in her hometown, where she applied to play Blues Fest ...

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Two musician-programmers have teamed up to create an algorithm to generate every possible music melody in order to stop copyright lawsuits. Credit: Getty Images/EyeEm It’s become a regular occurence ...

In Venice last week, a pair of orchestra seats for the premiere of Composer Igor Stravinsky’s first full-length opera was fetching as high as $500 on the black market. Operagoers and critics came from ...