This tender Beatles masterpiece pulled from the classical music tradition and empathised with the American civil rights ...

Turbocharge your fretting hand stretches, screaming bends and blues-rock intensity with the core techniques that shaped ...

Tinariwen went from Saharan weddings to Grammy-winning acclaim – but violence has forced the desert blues masters into exile. Now, a new generation is stepping in to help Since their formation in 1979 ...

On August 23, 2024, at an open-air arena in Taunton, Status Quo played what’s likely to be their final concert. Afterwards the group sold their gear and the individual members went their separate ways ...

BARNESVILLE — A snowy winter walk on a quiet trail in the woods may seem very boring at first. The hardwoods creak, the wind blows, and your boots crunch the snow underfoot, but if you pause and gaze ...

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.

To be fully transparent, this was initially going to be a very different essay. I first set out to chronicle Joni Mitchell’s transformation from a folk visionary to a jazz voyager; a story of ...

“I can still rock,” according to Danny Weis, co-founder of Iron Butterfly. The guitarist, who lived in Canada at the time of the interview, spent the majority of his youth in El Cajon. The founding ...

Like any great rock band, the Beatles emphasized the guitar within their music. They had three great guitar players, each with a distinct skill set that helped round out their sound in unique ways.

Like so much rock 'n' roll from the earliest and most formative years, Southern rock took a little bit from here and a little bit from there. Southern rock, distinct from its lighter country rock ...

If Steven Wilson did nothing with his career besides form Porcupine Tree, he’d still go down in music history as the leader of arguably the greatest prog rock band of the 1990s and 2000s. And the ...