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 ...

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

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.

In a recent interview, John Rzeznik revealed that although he desperately wanted to play the iconic slide guitar solo on the Goo Goo Dolls’ beloved hit “Iris,” guitarist Tim Pierce had to save the day ...

Ventura County attends NAMM this week, highlighting its long-standing role in music, live performances, and instrument ...

City of the Sun may call Brooklyn home, but the band’s wordless, genre-blurring sound has always traveled well beyond borders. Drawing from indie rock, ...

Starting out in a London pub, Georgie Hume and the Pity Party are taking a wayfaring approach to jazz, soul, and surf guitar, ...

Not all rock bands have a dedicated organist, These four brilliant keyboardists make a great case that all bands should.

Some guitar solos are more than just musical moments, they are the sounds that defined generations and influenced millions of musicians around the world. In this video we explore twenty of the ...

The guitar Kurt Cobain used in Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance, which was the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction, has been donated to the London Royal College Of Music. The guitar in ...

Steve Cropper, who died Wednesday at 84, is not a household name, but the music he made is some of the most familiar in American pop. The twanging guitar line that opens Sam & Dave’s “Soul Man”—that’s ...

Rock music is often associated with big personalities, and first among those is usually the singer. Be it Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry or Kurt Cobain – the singer is the centre of the storm, leading it ...