What starts as a tribute to “Stairway to Heaven” quickly becomes an enormous journey through the most explosive era in guitar history. By the mid-1970s, rock concerts had evolved into giant spectacles ...

The Sicilian guitar maestro wrote the breathtaking Solar Wind to be the most Steve Vai song he could possibly write – and for ...

Few artists were more prolific than the late Frank Zappa. He released a whopping 62 records in his lifetime, with the Zappa Family Trust unleashing 72 posthumous albums in the 32 years since his ...

It's a sad day in Joe's Garage.

Watching my son learn guitar helped me understand Steve Vai's lessons on music, creativity and growth.

Joe Satriani and Steve Vai learned to play guitar together as youths growing up on Long Island. Decades later they're revered guitar heroes on their own and in a variety of groups, and now they've ...

Legendary rock band Little Feat comes to Indian Ranch in Webster on June 7. Little Feat, founded in 1969, is on its "The Last Farewell Tour." On a compelling note of endings and beginnings, the annual ...

Revisiting comments made by a series of musicians who hate The Beatles including The Strokes singer Julian Casablancas, Lou Reed and Quincy Jones.

It was an honor to have known and collaborated with visual/graphic artist and musician Dennis Loren. Dennis supplied poster art for several of my books. He also contributed reflections and essays on ...

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, ...

Yacht rock first set sail over 50 years ago, but the sound just keeps getting bigger and bigger. This particular kind of soft rock — paired best with a piña colada and a pool chair — peaked in the ...