In a few days Paste will stake its claim on who the “greatest guitarist of all time” is, but first we have to talk about the ...

I was outside taking a set break during a gig with my band Saturday night, when several members of the group saw the same news on their phones — longtime Grateful Dead, RatDog and Dead & Co. rhythm ...

Taylor Swift released her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, last week — and before it was even out for a full day, listeners were already pointing out similarities between her new songs and existing ...

The Life of a Showgirl, which reunites Taylor Swift with Max Martin and Shellback, the Swedish producers behind her first breakthrough pop hits, is an exuberant album from an artist whose career and ...

Lo-fi is to audio what black-and-white or sepia-tinted film is to visual. Often lo-fi tracks will loop a sample from an old vinyl record, complete with scratches and crackles, then drop it over a ...

From Billy Joel’s inability to resist a good Beethoven melody to Lady Gaga’s sampling of rhapsodic violin solos, here are the greatest examples of classical samples in pop. In 19 cases of chicken and ...

800 cherries are a duo that have been largely shrouded in mystery. Hailing from Tokyo, the band consists of Manami Marufuji (vocals, guitar, keyboard) and Masayuki Takahashi (guitar, bass, keyboard), ...

A new study has identified The White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army as the world’s most Googled guitar riff. For Wood and Fire Studio’s statistics, the studio analyzed a total of 271 songs and 2,314,336 ...

It seems fitting that “The Waiting,” Tom Petty‘s classic song about romantic anticipation, took the songwriter many weeks to finish. Everything began with the song’s classic intro, which Petty wrote ...