There aren’t enough guitar solos anymore. I mean, there are guitar solos still happening—in the metalspheres of the world, most explicitly—but rock and roll’s got a serious solo deficiency going on.

I first heard Brian Eno’s surrealist masterpiece “Baby’s on Fire” as an actual baby, more or less: it was one of my parents’ household staples. For years I moved through life under the very confident ...

Like any great rock band, the Beatles emphasized the guitar within their music. They had three great guitar players, each with a distinct skill set that helped round out their sound in unique ways.

Some guitar solos are more than just musical moments, they are the sounds that defined generations and influenced millions of musicians around the world. In this video we explore twenty of the ...

There is a reason “Free Bird” is the most requested song at college parties and barrooms—it is electric to the utmost degree. While the song is great, the one facet of the song that people rave over ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...

You're probably reading this list of the Top 20 Hair Metal Guitar Solos for one of two reasons. You might be an '80s hard rock aficionado and guitar fanatic eager to see which of the era's solos we ...

Marshfield native Lars Chappell has gone viral on TikTok for a guitar solo he performed The viral guitar solo was performed at Tavern on the Wharf in Plymouth The video has more than 2 million views ...

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, ...