The best rock ballads of all time are also some of the best ballads period, from "Bridge Over Troubled Water" to "Dust in the ...

In rock music, the guitar is the instrument that usually stays front and center. Often, lead vocalists accompany themselves on guitar, with their bandmates providing vocal and instrumental support in ...

When one is beaten down, hard up, and down on their luck, there is no better place to find comfort than in music. Particularly melancholic piano ballads that sonically articulate the emotions that ...

Everybody loves power ballads, whether or not they admit it. There’s just something about a rock band slowing things down and cranking up the emotion. For generations, the force of power ballads has ...

That’s the question Just Joe asked as he sat down at a piano, performing the 1999 nu-metal song with a tenderness equal to the anger in Fred Durst’s voice more than two decades ago. The result is a ...

The city-sized audience at Elton John's Bonnaroo-closing performance wasn't sure what to do with the piano-pop master's opening number. "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" is the first cut on ...

Next month, pop-punk survivors Sum 41 will return with a new album called Order in Decline. We've already heard the band's metal-tinged "A Death in the Family" and "Out for Blood," and now they've ...

There isn’t a dull moment over the course of this fine EP even if the music that washes over you is hushed and almost solemn and haunting. Its rootsy folk instrumentation happens to establish the ...