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To celebrate last year's 25th anniversary of Final Fantasy 9, Famitsu (via Automaton) spoke with its creators about the lasting impact of FF9's return to more traditional fantasy. Looking back on its ...

Would you love to launch your own Middle Ages band but can’t find a lutist let alone a good hurdy gurdy player? First off, congratulations on knowing what a hurdy gurdy is (man). But second and more ...

A Ridgefield man is collaborating with a team of academics to learn more about history and music after discovering Medieval musical manuscripts that are 800 years old. Hundreds of books surround ...

Michael Urie and Sutton Foster in Once Upon a Mattress at New York City Center. Joan Marcus As late as last week, he was drawing double duty with both—rehearsing Dauntless by day and playing Sir Robin ...

Teenage Engineering calls its new digital music sequencer an instrumentalis electronicum, “the ultimate, and only, medieval beat machine.” I call it coolium thingamajignus because the EP-1320 embodies ...