In a music industry where fame fades fast, Kakai has refused to disappear, defying time, silence and even death.

This rare instrument, called a daxophone, sounds eerily similar to a human voice when played. There's something haunting ...

Available now via Zappa Records/UMe, Bongo Fury (50th Anniversary Edition) shines a spotlight on Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart’s creative partnership that peaked in 1975 with their joint album, ...

Abstract: Multi-instrument automatic music transcription (AMT) is a critical but less investigated problem in the field of music information retrieval (MIR). With all the difficulties faced by ...

Drumming and singing at the same time is impressive, whether you’re Karen Carpenter, Ringo Starr or a chimpanzee. Japanese ...

Scott Yoo learns from Eyjólfur Eyjólfsson and Jófríður Ákadóttir about how driftwood can be made into the iconic Icelandic instrument langspil. Most of settled history, we didn't have any forests. I ...

The Wisconsin Conservatory of Music is inviting the public to make music more accessible by donating gently-used instruments to its 2026 instrument drive on April 18. Established in 2017, the biennial ...

Frank Zappa’s Bongo Fury 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe box set includes five CDs and a Blu-ray disc with Dolby Atmos and 5.1 surround, plus high resolution stereo. At the start of the first concert in ...

Hellman’s is finally answering the question on everyone’s minds: Is mayonnaise an instrument? The question was infamously first posed about 25 years ago by the lovable starfish Patrick on “SpongeBob ...

A viral SpongeBob quote has officially crossed into academic territory, with a new study confirming that mayonnaise can function as a musical instrument. The research, commissioned by Hellman’s and ...

Hellmann's is answering one of the internet's longest-running questions: is mayonnaise an instrument? First posed in an iconic animated TV scene (IYKYK), then commonly debated in Reddit threads for ...

Since Patrick Star first posed it to Squidward Tentacles, the internet hasn’t been able to get the question, “Is mayonnaise an instrument?” out of its collective head. Luckily, experts have finally ...