When you feel like sounding like a rockstar without working too hard, you should try one of the songs on our list of 11 easiest electric guitar solos that sound good. I would love to be able to play a ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Sure, everybody loves a guitar show-off, melting picks and blistering fingers as they ...

With a cotton-mouthed charm and subtle sonic ambition, Nap Eyes are one of Canada's most formidable indie rock bands. But the Halifax-based four-piece, formed in 2007, aren't complacent veterans; ...

Sometimes, a producer needs a guitar legend to elevate a potential hit single. Or, for reasons of youth, addiction, or lack of skill, professional session players are called upon to rescue a track.

Much of rock music is centered around a powerful guitar solo. Few genres have such a reliance on a single instrument. There have been many famous guitar solos throughout the decades, but the four ...

Metallica have created some of the most critically acclaimed music in the world of rock and metal over the course of three decades. And one of the foundations of their music has been Kirk Hammett's ...

When the world lost Prince on April 21, it didn't just lose an amazing singer, it lost one of the most important guitarists of this generation. Listen to any one of Prince's guitar solos, and you will ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

For a lot of young Guitar Hero-inspired guitarists, it’s their dream to stand on top of a piano, equipped with leather pants and a Gibson Les Paul. With the wind blowing through their hair and a ...

About two minutes into “Outta My Head,” from the new album Free Spirit by pop-R&B star Khalid, a strange, foreign sound bubbles to the song’s shiny disco-pop surface. It’s a squiggly, pitchy thing ...