Starting with riffs and chords may be standard for rock jams and in popular music in general, but making that part a ...

The song's legendary solo has been praised for decades, but a new ranking has now put its enduring brilliance above every classic rock rival.

The Kinks' "You Really Got Me" turned 62 this month, and the guitar sound that helped make it one of rock's most influential records did not come from an expensive piece of studio equipment. It came ...

Photo of Santana Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then a musical cover takes on a life of its own and sees the original replaced with another ...

What makes a great guitar solo? Is it pure emotion or dazzling technical command? Simplicity or complexity? One note or a thousand? Is it meticulously crafted melodic precision, hair-raising ...

Jack White has made a career out of exciting music and expanding his guitar's reach when it comes to producing sound; this ...

Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced arrived in the U.S. 59 years ago on Aug. 23, 1967, putting "Purple Haze" at the front of an album that would change rock guitar. Yet one of its most enduring ...