Adirondack guitarist Ralph Lane has played with Grammy nominees and toured Europe. He got his start listening to radio in the ...

Although the electric guitar is the bread and butter of any great rock and roll band, the classic songs are the ones that ...

Green Day's supposedly counter-cultural "Jesus of Suburbia" takes a lot of ideas from a thoroughly mainstream Bryan Adams ...

“Acting on your best behaviour/Nothing ever lasts forever,” sings Curt Smith as the song shifts from Em-F#m-G-F#m, then Em-F#m-G-A on “Everybody wants to rule the world”. It was released as a single ...

Some of the best advice I received when I decided to take up guitar a few months ago was to pick out a guitar that looks cool ...

Having celebrated 40 years as a solo artist who planted the neoclassical flag atop rock's mountain, Mr Malmsteen reflects on ...

Who is to say when inspiration will strike? For Mike Campbell, the music for this Don Henley classic came in an unlikely place.

Electricity? Overrated… ‘Real’ guitarists know that a guitar’s genuine excitement is best earned via the more personal connection of the player plus the resonant wooden body of an acoustic. Decades ...

Of course the new Tyler, The Creator album was a meticulously curated audio-visual experience, hi-res and high-concept. The ...

In this Martin D Jr E StreetLegend Burst review, I’ll walk you through the guitar’s features and appointments and give my honest impressions.

So many of those occur when sifting through the songbook of Paul Simon. You’re floating along, enraptured in the beauty of a ...

Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign ...