As part of Radio 3's Night Blossoms season, Tom Service embarks on a musical odyssey to Japan for Music Matters. Here, he ...

In the second half of the 2000s, music games had taken over like never before. Kicking off with Harmonix’s Guitar Hero on the PlayStation 2, games featuring plastic instruments were just as popular, ...

After graduating from the Osaka College of Music in 1988, Yoko Shimomura was torn between career paths. Classically trained since the age of 3 and raised in a family of piano players, Shimomura had ...

Just days into 2023, my podcast co-hosts and I fell into a discussion about rhythm games. In talking about the golden age of music games like Guitar Hero, we began to mourn for a genre that had ...

Music industry innovators are discovering the many growth opportunities that exist in the rapidly-growing games market. Artists are leveraging gaming spaces as a new way to release albums, launch ...

Megan (She/They) is a freelance journalist from the United Kingdom for the digital publication, Game Rant. She has been professionally writing gaming content for roughly four years now, since starting ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Everyone loves music, of course, but some people just ...

Nadia Grace Mullings is a contributor and journalist for Game Rant, and has been a big fan of video gaming from a young age. Strong first impressions included point-and-click games on an old PC (way ...

“The images tell the story, but the music tells you how to feel,” video game composer Grant Kirkhope said in a phone call with Mashable. Video games consist of three components. The first two, visuals ...

Daniel Trock is a Contributor at DualShockers specializing in PC games, lists, and reviews. He has been writing professionally since 2018 and covering games since 2020, with previous work spanning ...