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 ...

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 ...

Acoustic metal? Seems like an oxymoron, but some of metal’s greatest bands have crafted legitimate masterpieces with little more than an acoustic guitar. We’re not talking about MTV Unplugged sessions ...

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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 ...

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 ...