Eddie Vedder recently joked to a New York Times reporter that his mission on “Ukulele Songs” was “Can I make this happy little instrument as depressed as I am?” The answer is no. No matter how hard he ...

(CBS News) The year was 1998. The song was "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls. And it was literally everywhere. If you turned on the radio, it would be playing. If you went to a movie, it was probably on the ...

The ukulele, an instrument once ridiculed for its ties to vaudeville acts and Hawaiian vacations, has gone in and out of favor over its roughly 140-year history. Its recent popularity can be traced ...

“Put your finger here,” says the mononymous Suzala, as she instructs Arlene Krassner, both with ukuleles at their chests. Suzala is tutoring Krassner in the B-minor seventh, or Bm7 chord, on the ...

For Kate Friedricks, a Tujunga resident who grew up in Glendale and taught herself to play the ukulele as a girl, the instrument has become an addictive mode of expression that keeps her up at night ...

Fortunately, as if sensing a vacuum, the wonderful Twin Cities-based singer-songwriter Jeremy Messersmith is also one week away from releasing an album whose meanings aren't likely to be parsed for ...