Over the past 18 years, FourPlay String Quartet have redefined notions of what a string quartet can play. A handful of albums have seen them bring rock'n'roll dynamics and a multitude of influences ...

There are strings all over Elbow's Mercury prize-winning album The Seldom Seen Kid, and the others that were nominated are also heavy on the violins. The Last Shadow Puppets and Adele call in some ...

Bordering nations often share a common food or musical heritage that develops as a process of mutual influences. Mongolia, with its rich and distinctive musical traditions, is bordered by Russia in ...

The very gift that makes a session musician great can also be a curse. Oftentimes expected to be chameleon-like, it's that very act of becoming a credible musical shape-shifter that can sometimes lead ...