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 ...

Pop superstar Beyoncé released "Texas Hold 'Em" a few weeks ago and it features an instrument that she had never emphasized before. This hit song, on her new (and hugely popular) Cowboy Carter album, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Fans of the Banjo-Kazooie series have had very little to celebrate over the last two decades.

"My father was born with this instrument," Laemouahuma Daniel Jatta says. "This is part of our history." Jatta, 55, is from Gambia, a member of the Jola people. He's holding an akonting: a ...

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 ...

Banjo-Kazooie, the iconic bird and bear duo who first stomped onto the scene in two excellent N64 platformers, almost looked very different. The story of how Banjo-Kazooie actually began development ...

This review originally went live in 2009, and we're updating and republishing it to mark the long-awaited return of Banjo-Kazooie to a Nintendo console, available as part of the Nintendo Switch Online ...

When putting together this top 10 of the most influential banjo players of all time, we needed to make a decision. Do we consider everybody that plays a stringed instrument with a drum for a body, or ...

A rumored in-development Banjo-Kazooie game may have fallen victim to Microsoft's recently announced restructuring and joined the list of the company's newly canceled games. While there hasn't even ...

You could be forgiven for missing the biggest news buried in the latest Nintendo Direct — the real megaton that turned it into the finest 40-minute presentation Nintendo has ever assembled. Banjo and ...