Before garage rock and heavy metal, there were the Kinks. In 1964, the London band’s use of power chords and fuzzy distortion on “You Really Got Me” influenced the Rolling Stones (“Satisfaction”), the ...

Panzee doesn’t talk, but she knows a word when she hears one — even if it’s emitted by a computer with a synthetic speech impediment. That’s not too shabby for a chimpanzee. Raised to recognize 128 ...

MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (AP) -- A recording engineer whose invention of a pedal that allowed guitarists to create a fuzzy, distorted sound most famously used by Keith Richards in the Rolling Stones' ...

The Magnetic Fields can't be accused of false advertising in titling studio album eight Distortion: Each tune's wrapped in a fuzzy, clamoring shell, even when the feedbacking acoustic piano and guitar ...