It’s no secret that the guitar is the backbone of pretty much every song. Whether it’s a railing, electric solo that makes listeners want to break out their best air guitar, a stripped-down acoustic ...

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On the last episode of All Songs Considered for 2025, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich takes host Robin Hilton through an ...

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, ...

Show a rock fan this week’s Official Singles Chart – or any Top 40 from the last few years, for that matter – and you’ll likely be met with the response that rock music is dead. Reports on the death ...

Polyphia's Tim Henson has turned a lot of heads in recent years with his impressive guitar work, but the guitarist gave a shout out to a surprising musician when discussing how he feels guitar music ...

For those who think they are virtuosic enough, we have picked the easiest Jimi Hendrix songs to play on guitar to start with. Jimi Hendrix was born in 1942 in Seattle. His first touch and introduction ...

Just when you think all of the sonic possibilities have been wrung out of a guitar, someone comes along to expand expectations again. Instrumental solo guitar music in particular remains in constant ...

From the sultry Spanish sounds of the Concierto de Aranjuez to modern adaptations of 17th-century lute music, some of the greatest classical music sounds absolutely stunning on guitar. For a work as ...

Forget the spandex-wrapped, dive-bombing antics of the 1980s; the real golden era of shred guitar was the ’50s. They didn't call it shred back then, of course, and most of the action took place in ...

Synth-pop musician ‘pronoun’ has been working in the business for about six years, as well as having made her own music for a lot of her life. Three years ago, the Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter ...