If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. There is no way to achieve that old-fashioned Appalachian ...

With Double Fine's status as an imaginative, creative developer, many fans began to speculate after its acquisition that Double Fine could be a likely candidate to develop a remake or sequel to Rare's ...

Gregg Mayles, the director of Sea of Thieves and designer on Donkey Kong Country, has announced that he's left Rare. News of Mayles' exit was first reported in July 2025 during a rash of layoffs and ...

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of Game Rant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...

Influential Banjo artist Tony Trischka will play his holiday-themed show at Club Passim in December. The concert is a ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The squat, heavy piece of machinery sitting on a shipping pallet has the rounded edges and clean lines of industrial design from the 1940s, but it looks like new in a coat of gray paint ...

Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...

I'm Tyler Macready. I am a Movies/TV Feature Writer for Collider. In the golden age of 3D platforming, no other titles captured the imaginations of players quite like Rare’s Banjo-Kazooie and its ...

On this day (October 29) in 1937, Sonny Osborne was born in Thousandsticks, Kentucky. After learning to play the banjo as a child, he formed a group with his brother, Bobby Osborne. Together, the ...

Banjo player Bill Keith passed away at 75 last Friday, October 23rd, after complications due to cancer. He died in his home in Bearsville, N.Y. Keith is widely considered a pioneer of banjo playing: ...