What makes a guitar solo great goes beyond a guitarist's technical ability. A guitar solo is a personal expression through an ...

I don't really know the secret of how guitarists create their own unique sounds,” Rodgers tells us, “but I know a good guitar ...

Find three songs with masterful guitar solos that Brian May has lauded in the past. Revisit these mind-boggling riffs.

On her debut solo album, Nobody Loves You more, Kim Deal expands on the sonics she built in the Breeders and Pixies ...

There is a select group of guitar solos that have stood the test of time. They continually pop up in “best of” lists and have long captured the imagination of burgeoning guitarists. But the praise for ...

Bill Forsyth’s 1983 comedy-drama Local Hero boasts two rather lofty accolades. Not only does the film have an indelible 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but its soundtrack features what Mark ...

Black metal has cursed the music world with some of the most bone-chilling, brutal, and even beautiful guitar work. Today, we undertake the perilous task of honoring the genre’s greatest axemen!

You're probably reading this list of the Top 20 Hair Metal Guitar Solos for one of two reasons. You might be an '80s hard rock aficionado and guitar fanatic eager to see which of the era's solos we ...

If readers of the Lariat opinion section have learned anything about me, it’s that I love two things. Music and ranking things. So I figured, why not combine my two loves to create my magnum opus. I ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Tom Verlaine, the legendary guitarist of Television, ranks among the best players of all time. His angular riffs and staccato jolts of electricity helped reshape how rock music was conceived, played, ...