This video explores the decline of the guitar solo in modern music, examining how changing trends, technology, and culture reshaped one of rock’s most defining sounds. Snow blankets Cascades as 1,500 ...

Poison, Motley Crue and Ratt frontmen will be part of WPDH's 50 years of rock anniversary celebration kick off. Get there early for pre-show concert with Breach the Asylum. Three iconic voices of rock ...

“AfterSmells Like Teen Spirit, there was no place for bands like us”: The life and death of a hair metal band In the summer ...

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 ...

Tom Verlaine, the legendary guitarist of Television, ranks among the best players of all time. His angular riffs and staccato jolts of electricity helped reshape how rock music was conceived, played, ...

The 1980s produced quite a few guitar gods in rock music, but what about the underrated legends who haven’t really gotten their flowers in the decades since then? Let’s take a look at just four ...

"Any kind of technical guitar playing was mocked and frowned upon." "I actually had some solos in songs, but they all got cut out. Because between Ross and Joey, guitar solos are stupid now." ...

What are the best metalcore guitar solos? It's something fans are hotly debating. With its emphasis on down-tuned chugs and crushing breakdowns, metalcore is not necessarily a subgenre commonly ...

What is rock and roll without energy-pulsating electric guitar solos? Throughout rock and roll history, guitar solos have sent the guitarist and the audience into spirit-like trances and unmatched ...

Some eighties rockers wish they could teleport some 40 years back in time. Mike Tramp isn’t one of them. The former White Lion singer has no desire to sound, act, or look like he did once upon a time.

Dialing back to the ‘80s, there were numerous giants who strode the earth with an electric guitar in hand. These titanic players were overlords of shred and sultans of melodicism. Of the many who ...