When Link Wray recorded “Rumble” in early 1958, most rock-and-roll guitarists were doing everything they could to avoid distortion. Wray did the opposite, unabashedly leaning into it and, in the ...

There aren’t enough guitar solos anymore. I mean, there are guitar solos still happening—in the metalspheres of the world, most explicitly—but rock and roll’s got a serious solo deficiency going on.

It’s never not surprising when artists create adventurous, instrumental electronic music that breaks through to a wider audience. In an era of formulaic, innocuous mega-streamers, challenging sounds ...

The Animal Collective member issues his first solo album, a varied instrumental collection that channels influences ranging ...

Known for his slide-guitar work and blues-inflected, improvisational style, singer-songwriter Warren Haynes brings his first solo tour to the Uptown Theatre in Napa.

The soulful guitar-pop single about comfort, connection, and slowing down is out now on all digital music platforms worldwide ...

“Once” relates the bittersweet tale of Guy, a Dublin street busker — complete with an open guitar case on the pavement beckoning for tips — who is at the end his tether, despondently trying to create ...

Billy Bass Nelson, Parliament–Funkadelic's legendary founding bassist, passed away at 75.

British alt-rock trio THE HARA release Twist the Arrows produced by Brad Mair. Download the new single from their upcoming project The Fallout on Mascot Records. Listen, stream, Buy the track, Mp3 ...

Its second release is a sprawling, remastered four-album reissue series collecting the complete recorded output of Alter ...

The new controller, a collaboration between CRKD and Gibson, revives the glory days of games like Guitar Hero and Rockband.