While often viewed as instruments exclusively for children, xylophones are present in orchestras, film scores and even some pop and rock bands. The simplicity that makes them appeal to young people ...

We’ve seen LEGO sets modeled after pop culture franchises, like Super Mario Bros. and Twilight. However, the sky’s the limit with these building blocks. The proof is in this fully functional xylophone ...

Founded in 1954 by Hugh Tracey, ILAM is the largest repository of African music in the world. A research institution devoted to the study of music in Africa, it preserves thousands of historical ...

Kickstarter project Mogees lets you compose music from a table, toaster, tricycle, or virtually any other object, like a modern-day Mozart. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the serious and silly ...

As a kind of parting gift to the city of Knoxville, Tenn., Big Ears Festival composer-in-residence John Luther Adams ended the weekend with a Sunday afternoon performance of his Inuksuit, a ...

While music and design may not seem to go hand in hand at first glance, a giant mile-long xylophone certainly fits the bill for both. After all, it’s likely the only instrument on the planet that can ...

The wedding brass band, Lata perennials on the paan shop transistor, deshbhakti songs at rallies, amplified M.S. at the roadside temple — wanted and unwanted, beautiful and cacophonous, music ...