Meier on what he learned from Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía, and how in Jeff Beck he found a kindred spirit ...

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After a two-year hiatus, The Sword reunited in August for a tour celebrating the 15th anniversary of its seminal album, Warp ...

The Foo Fighters dropped the bombastic 'Asking for a Friend' single on Thursday (Oct. 23) and announced dates for a 2026 North American stadium tour.

Metallica’s Master Of Puppets is a rite of passage for any young player building up their chops in metal guitar, and it is a ...

Around the walls there were photos from Horslips’ heyday mingled with posters from gigs. It wasn’t a museum, though. The ...

These posthumous Luke bell releases are bittersweet.

It was actually Luke’s mom who first told him to pick up the guitar only 11 years ago when he was in college, and because he was starting to realize he had no post-grad plans, he started picking on ...

Michael Romeo - War of the Worlds Part 2 Symphony X mastermind Michael Romeo is an architect of the riff, sculpting melodic phrases with intricate picking patterns into huge labyrinthine songs. He is ...

As a metal guitarist, it pains me to say that on some days, I don’t even want to look at my guitar, let alone play it. There are moments when I feel so devoid of inspiration that I question why I ever ...

There are many ways to play the guitar, and certainly many Legendary Guitarists, such as Chet Atkins, Joni Mitchell, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, among countless others. While these are all stylistically ...

Classic rock music through the years has inspired countless young musicians to learn how to play the guitar. Whether that interest stuck or not depends on the person. However, plenty of now-famous ...