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.

Rock music continued its evolution in 1985, but what didn't change were the iconic riffs and iconic guitar solos.

This year is not like any other. The response to the 2023 greatest guitar solo poll nigh-on overwhelmed the administration at Guitar World. It was a record turnout, and once we collated the votes, and ...

Neil Young said “Heart Of Gold” put him in the middle of the road, so, becoming bored with the mainstream, he opted for the ditch. For most of the 80s, Young experimented with genres, fought with his ...

Rock and roll guitar solos are modern one-person symphonies, and two of the greatest guitar soloist are Eddie Van Halen and ...

About two and a half minutes into Afrique Victime, the new album by Nigerian guitar phenom Mdou Moctar, the music explodes at you in a way that records often don’t anymore. At the start of opening ...

This high-energy musical performance reimagines a timeless British rock classic through the lens of modern electric guitar shredding. The video begins with an invitation to an exclusive live-streamed ...

It’s wrongly said he didn’t play on his band’s first two albums. Aware of his “clumsy” approach to solos, he took lessons ...

Page once said his drug use never got out of hand to the point it interfered with his Led Zeppelin responsibilities. Still, his relative lack of songwriting involvement on In Through the Out Door ...

It’s hard to imagine George Harrison without hearing his impeccable slide guitar work. George started playing slide guitar just before The Beatles broke up. The style gave him a fresh sound, and he ...

Guitarist and former Megadeth member Marty Friedman has a theory for why streaming music subscribers are reportedly skipping past guitar solos when they listen to songs. It's unclear where he saw the ...

Roger Waters has defended David Gilmour's guitar solos, taking to Twitter to express his frustration over a recent article that implied his distaste for his former Pink Floyd bandmate's work. "It's ...