Billy Strings and Chris Thile were singing an old song called “Rabbit in a Log” at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Clouds of weedy smoke rolled up to the stage from below, and thunder echoed from ...

Ping-pong bots, drumming chimps, picking styles of two jazz greats, and an ancient underground city’s soundscape.

Plus: Sally Shapiro, SAVAK, The Minus 5, Super Furry Animals, ravey supergroup Demise of Love (Daniel Avery, Working Men's ...