It takes real talent to go toe to toe against the Stooges and Motörhead on a soundtrack and Paul does this effortlessly” - ...

Dear readers, the highly anticipated second season of the hit show Bridgerton is upon us - which means more pop covers worthy of a Regency ball.. Netflix editorial site, Tudum, revealed Friday the ...

Ahead, listen through the gallery of instrumental takes on popular songs like "Don't You Worry Child," "Firework," and "Empire State of Mind." "Firework" by Dallas String Quartet (Cover of Katy Perry) ...

Revisiting An Era When Pop Didn't Always Have Lyrics It might be unthinkable now, but groups like The Ventures cracked Top 40 radio with instrumental tunes. The Nashville duo Steelism hopes to do ...

Blogger and pop historian Tom Nawrocki says instrumentals were the ultimate novelty hits. Tweet Share Share. ... He says the history of wordless hits tends to be filled with novelties and one-offs ...

When The Bad Plus released These Are the Vistas in 2003, the band received notices from a lot of non-jazz press whose coverage focused on an easy angle: its reinvention of pop and rock material ...

Instrumental hitmakers tended to be one-hit wonders. The exceptions were a ’60s trumpeter who pretended to be Latin, and an ’80s sax player named Kenny.

It included two bluesy instrumental covers of pop songs that also appeared as singles: the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night" and “Hang On Sloopy,” which the McCoys had made a No. 1 hit in 1965.