Before every gig, Firewind and Ozzy's virtuoso hones his chops with focused drills for sweeping, slurring, and string jumping. Steal his six essential exercises to level up your own metal technique ...

Following a debate sparked by a video from guitar tech Luis Munoz, who claimed that “Gibson will never change” its headstock ...

Billy Strings won his fourth IBMA Entertainer of the Year award at the 36th annual Bluegrass Music Awards, where he also gave the keynote.

The Downtown Ithaca Alliance will be hosting their 43rd annual Ithaca Apple Harvest Festival Friday through Sunday. Meanwhile ...

When 'More Than a Feeling' was released by Boston in 1976, it changed music forever in its pioneering approach to composing.

The six-string wizards in our Best Guitarists in Country Music list all have their different ways of using the instrument to ...

Whether strumming a melody, writing a book or taking a photo, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Andy Summers is a virtuoso ...

From their 1969 debut to Untitled aka Led Zeppelin IV, we've definitively ranked every album by rock giants Led Zeppelin.

When B.B. King died in May 2015 at the age of 89, his Variety obituary hailed him as “the ‘King of the Blues,’ who helped define his genre’s electrified postwar sound and became the music’s best-known ...

Ruby Leftstep is a local alternative rock and emo band from New Hartford, Conn., which plays many shows in the area, including in Storrs. For example, they won WHUS Radio’s Spring 2024 Battle of ...

The chorus’s ferocity was underlined by the repeated motif of ‘Stabbing yourself in the neck’. A suitably violent turn of phrase which was, unbeknownst to Banks at the time, set to become a late-night ...