Classic rock music is most often meant to be heard loud. If the speakers and amplifiers are left standing by the end of the show, then something has gone wrong! Let all the hair get pushed back, let ...

Every once in a while a person’s singing voice stands out as especially poignant. Sometimes so poignant, in fact, it can even make Stephen Colbert shed a tear. UK-based guitar player and YouTuber, ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. The Athens-based rock band Everyday Dogs has released acoustic covers on their ...

Sometimes you just gotta let the words breathe, and going for an acoustic vibe is a way to do just that, especially with XXXTentacion songs. After he dropped his first album, 17, three years ago, XXX ...

Cat Power’s version of “Wonderwall” by Oasis almost sounds like an entirely different song. The acoustic cover was recorded sometime in the late 1990s and aired on BBC Radio 1. For some reason, Cat ...

Metallica is paying homage to fellow legends in heavy metal and rock Alice In Chains with a stripped-down acoustic cover of “Would?” The cover track comes as part of a livestream all-star tribute to ...

Derek Sanders—best known as the long-locked frontman of Mayday Parade—has a hard time taking it easy. Despite a full songwriting and touring schedule with the pop-punk lifers from Tallahassee, Sanders ...

"Game Of Pricks" is arguably the best song on arguably the best Guided By Voices album, Alien Lanes. Inarguably, it has become a standard of sorts in recent years, one of the most common GBV songs to ...

Senior citizens: every time you’re ready to argue that we put them on blocks of ice and push them out to sea lest they continue to be a burden on the community, one of them goes and does something to ...

Hayley Williams released an acoustic cover of Radiohead’s “Fake Plastic Trees” on Instagram Monday as part of her “self-serenade” series of covers. (Past renditions have included Phoebe Bridgers’ ...