Looking for the perfect songs about coffee to brew up the ultimate vibe? If you are a passionate coffee enthusiast, a barista behind the counter, a café owner curating a playlist, or someone who ...

The acoustic punk song is a time-honored tradition that has seen a rise — due to necessity — during this year of isolation. This edition of In Defense of the Genre looks at 30 songs from throughout ...

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We love to keep it heavy with face-melting solos and excruciating screams. But sometimes it’s important to unplug the amps and let the emotions pour out from the soul—even if you’re too “metal” for ...

Strum your way through this list of 15 easiest acoustic guitar songs to play for beginners, and you just might pull off the free-spirited, hippy persona. I’ve tried my hand at both electric and ...

Do you remember the acoustic revolution of the 1990s and early 2000s? For some reason, everyone had an acoustic guitar in their bedroom, dorm room, living room, or garage. At the time, it was unclear ...

Here are five acoustic songs that are still hard and heavy, chosen by three-piece rock band Of Limbo. The trio recently dropped their latest LP, Unplugged. It’s a nine-track release featuring covers ...

Perhaps the best way to know that a song is well written is to strip it down to its most natural and intimate form. If a song can elicit an emotional response from a listener with simply the artist’s ...

Led Zeppelin started as a psychedelic blues band in the last 1960s. It didn’t take long for them to prove they had a soft side with their more delicate work in the folk and country genres. They never ...

Sometimes, a solid rock song just needs to have its production stripped down and its instrumentation broken down into basic parts to really shine. Plenty of rock stars have performed “unplugged” ...

Taylor Swift has dropped some new versions of The Life of a Showgirl, this time she’s going unplugged with a few of the album’s songs. The acoustic tracks are available on four new CDs on the musician ...