Justin Curtis White, III, known professionally as JWhite, is a drummer with verve. His first YouTube video has over 5.5 million views, but it’s not the views that matter as much as why people are watching—because JWhite is bringing something new with his beats.
Mackenzie O’Brien was the first winner of Making Music’s new Community Video people’s choice competition. Her video for the song “Anything Other Than This” received twice as many votes as the runner-up.
Dan Reynolds and Andrew Tolman started the band Imagine Dragons back in 2008 while attending Bringham University.
Canadian rockers Rose Cora Perry & The Truth Untold have recently released their debut EP, Other Side of the Story — an album that reworks four of Perry’s previous folksy acoustic solo songs into hard-edged rock ‘n’ roll, and adds a fifth song as a unique treat for listeners: a creative distortion-driven take on Adele’s […]
Coldplay was formed between 1996 and 1998 at University College London. The founding members Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland met each other during their first week of school.
Queen is probably the world’s biggest and most successful band of all time, but they too had small beginnings.
One of the world’s biggest Nu-metal bands, Korn, started out when they were just a couple of kids in high school.
In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Grammy winning artist Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank, honest, passionate, and often funny pages is […]
One of the most iconic and influential bands of the late 1960s is The Doors. It all began in the halls of UCLA where Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek were studying Film and Theatre.
Jake Shimabukuro is probably the world’s greatest ambassador for the ukulele, and it’s a role he loves. If you’ve ever been to one of his live performances and seen the way he reaches fans on a visceral level, there is no doubt that playing the instrument brings him great joy. It always has.