There’s that famous quote: “Where words fail, music speaks.” Instrumental music has never gone out of fashion, nor has it been what you would call a dominant trend, particularly in the world of rock, ...

Instrumental rock is a curious beast. In the nascent rock'n'roll era it was simply a source of immediate, twangy thrills, the province of Dick Dale, Link Wray and the Shadows. During the early 1970s, ...

A lonesome guitar drone kicks off Grey Rubble—Green Shoots, the surprise-dropped lead single off the upcoming album by Canadian orchestral anarcho-punks Godspeed You! Black Emperor. It’s the sort of ...

The high-pitched, oscillating riffs in Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s sixth album — their third since reuniting in 2011 — have a siren-like effect, an alert running through its four instrumentals with ...