At its core, rock & roll represents a rejection of the status quo — a rebellion against the establishment that isn’t afraid ...

The role of a guitarist and pianist always seemed at odds. In the early days of rock and roll, both managed to fill up the sound whenever a group played, but in terms of the midrange instrument that ...

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions comes up with an epic extraterrestrial playlist for Earth’s first contact from beyond the stars This week’s new question: ...

What starts as a breakdown of Jimi Hendrix’s guitar playing quickly becomes a deeper exploration of how one musician completely transformed the electric guitar forever. Emerging during the late 1960s, ...

The Brooklyn arts collective joined a growing number of artists this year who pulled albums from Spotify as disdain mounts for the company’s payouts and practices. They sent listeners on a quest to ...

All hail the guitar solo — one of the most indestructibly great art forms in all of modern music. There’s nothing quite like the thrill of a glorious six-string explosion — a long, twisted, ...

The blues is more than a genre: it’s the raw, unfiltered voice of human emotion. Born from the spirituals, work songs, and field hollers of African American communities in the Deep South, blues music ...

The St. Louis Blues came into their game against the Anaheim Ducks knowing that another loss on this West Coast trip would all but eliminate them from playoff contention. Perhaps they'd be ...

Frank began playing guitar at age 7 in Canberra, Australia where he was born and raised. He was influenced by the blues playing of Jimi Hendrix , John Mayall / Eric Clapton, and Grateful Dead's Jerry ...

Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a “Song of the Week” designation. Check out last week’s roundup here. Follow ...

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.

The Moog synthesizer on Simon & Garfunkel’s “Save The Life Of My Child” sounds like an alien invasion. A psychedelic intrusion on a 1968 folk tune. Two years later, Keith Emerson recorded his iconic ...