“If I could do it all over, I would continue my bass violin studies; I was a good string bassist in junior high school, but ...

The Beatles never did record Isn’t It A Pity. Neither did Frank. The first chance the public had to hear it was on All Things ...

From psychedelic grooves to minimalist pulses and stadium-shaking riffs, these are the basslines that have shaped rock music ...

Listen to a playlist of the year's best songs as selected by The Times' August Brown, Cerys Davies and Mikael Wood.

However, a few years later Carey’s story of how the song came about seemed to contradict this. In a 2017 interview with ...

A bass line doesn’t need to be prominent to be successful. In fact, some bassist take the approach of making their rhythm so seamless that fans start grooving without really knowing what’s going on.

Rankin/Bass Productions specials are legendary with TV as they have been broadcast regularly each holiday for decades at this ...

The Rage Against the Machine axe-man’s most memorable moment saw him emulate a DJ scratch breakdown using a trick that few have fully mastered ...

Thoughtful remastering, well-chosen outtakes and archival material can make familiar albums feel newly essential.

54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, will present The Chromatics in The Songs of Rankin/Bass. For 65 years, the animated classics created by Arthur Rankin Jr and Jules Bass (Rankin/Bass Productions) have ...

The rock world lost a great with the passing of John Lodge on October 10, 2025. Here are four tracks he spearheaded with The ...