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BirthdayRush is back at Madison Square Garden, Geddy Lee has just turned 73, and Alex Lifeson is still making a three-piece band sound like an orchestra. A guitarist's look at why Lifeson remains one of rock's most quietly radical players.
Breaking NewsBruce Springsteen's surprise appearance during Bon Jovi's Madison Square Garden show was more than a guest spot — it was a full-circle New Jersey rock moment featuring Jon Bon Jovi, Phil X, and the enduring shadow of Richie Sambora.
Breaking NewsLaura Cox became one of YouTube's most-watched female guitarists years before most people knew her name. What happened after the views came first tells a bigger story about internet fame, live performance, and the real cost of building a modern guitar career.
Breaking NewsOn the morning of August 18, 1969, Jimi Hendrix walked onto the Woodstock stage and delivered one of the most influential guitar performances ever witnessed — a set that turned the Stratocaster into a new instrument and the American anthem into a statement heard around the world.
Breaking NewsFor decades, Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth kept one of rock's most famous feuds alive. Now, after Roth canceled most of his remaining 2026 tour dates, Hagar has done something almost no one expected: publicly wished him well and invited him onstage at the Best of All Worlds Las Vegas residency.
BirthdayMick Jagger celebrates his 83rd birthday on July 26, 2026 — and no reflection on his legacy is complete without the guitarist standing to his right for more than six decades. This is Keith Richards' extraordinary guitar career, told through the riffs, the five-string Telecasters and the open G tuning that helped build The Rolling Stones.
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Bruce Springsteen's surprise appearance during Bon Jovi's Madison Square Garden show was more than a guest spot — it was a full-circle New Jersey rock moment featuring Jon Bon Jovi, Phil X, and the enduring shadow of Richie Sambora.
Laura Cox became one of YouTube's most-watched female guitarists years before most people knew her name. What happened after the views came first tells a bigger story about internet fame, live performance, and the real cost of building a modern guitar career.
On the morning of August 18, 1969, Jimi Hendrix walked onto the Woodstock stage and delivered one of the most influential guitar performances ever witnessed — a set that turned the Stratocaster into a new instrument and the American anthem into a statement heard around the world.
For decades, Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth kept one of rock's most famous feuds alive. Now, after Roth canceled most of his remaining 2026 tour dates, Hagar has done something almost no one expected: publicly wished him well and invited him onstage at the Best of All Worlds Las Vegas residency.
TONE DECODEDOne note is all it takes to recognize Carlos Santana. We decode the PRS guitars, Mesa/Boogie and Dumble amps, humbucker choices, controlled feedback, and singing vibrato behind the most vocal lead tone in electric guitar.
TONE DECODEDThe Strat. The heavy strings. The Tube Screamer. The wall of amplifiers. We break down what really made Stevie Ray Vaughan's guitar tone sound so enormous.
TONE DECODEDEveryone chases the Strat, the Tube Screamer, the CE-1 chorus. But the real Frusciante sound lives in his hands, his dynamics, and the way he treats pedals like colors — not crutches.
TONE DECODEDFrom Brian May's orchestra-in-one-guitar to Eddie Van Halen's Brown Sound, these are the ten greatest guitar tones ever captured on tape — and the rigs that made them legendary.
TONE DECODEDInside Joe Perry's iconic tone — the vintage Les Pauls, cranked Marshalls, key pedals, and playing techniques that define Aerosmith's sound.
TONE DECODEDOne of guitar's biggest tube amp advocates is using Fender's Tone Master Pro. Here's what it means for the future of guitar tone.
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A one-hour-a-day practice system designed to lock your pentatonic shapes across the entire fretboard — with phrasing exercises, speed drills, and solo integration by Patrick Lawlor.
Top hat, Les Paul, cigarette, Marshall stack — the image is instantly recognizable. But it's the playing that made Slash a rock guitar hero. Ten solos that explain why.
From Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Nancy Wilson to Jennifer Batten, St. Vincent and Sophie Lloyd — the pioneers, icons, shredders and trailblazers who changed the guitar forever.
From Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen to Mark Knopfler, Randy Rhoads and Duane Allman, these are the players who changed what the guitar could do.
Classic rock never really disappeared — it just changed generations. These 25 albums didn't just sell millions of copies. They rewrote the rulebook, defined tones, and taught generations of guitarists what rock music could be.
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Bruce Springsteen's surprise appearance during Bon Jovi's Madison Square Garden show was more than a guest spot — it was a full-circle New Jersey rock moment featuring Jon Bon Jovi, Phil X, and the enduring shadow of Richie Sambora.
Laura Cox became one of YouTube's most-watched female guitarists years before most people knew her name. What happened after the views came first tells a bigger story about internet fame, live performance, and the real cost of building a modern guitar career.
On the morning of August 18, 1969, Jimi Hendrix walked onto the Woodstock stage and delivered one of the most influential guitar performances ever witnessed — a set that turned the Stratocaster into a new instrument and the American anthem into a statement heard around the world.
For decades, Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth kept one of rock's most famous feuds alive. Now, after Roth canceled most of his remaining 2026 tour dates, Hagar has done something almost no one expected: publicly wished him well and invited him onstage at the Best of All Worlds Las Vegas residency.
Mick Jagger celebrates his 83rd birthday on July 26, 2026 — and no reflection on his legacy is complete without the guitarist standing to his right for more than six decades. This is Keith Richards' extraordinary guitar career, told through the riffs, the five-string Telecasters and the open G tuning that helped build The Rolling Stones.
Fender has refreshed the popular Player II lineup with bold new finishes that give its best-selling guitars and basses an exciting new look while keeping the same modern playability players love.
From Stockholm to Rising Force, Yngwie Malmsteen fused Bach and Paganini with a scalloped Strat and a wall of Marshalls — permanently rewriting the vocabulary of shred guitar.
Every time a member of Jimi Hendrix's road crew or inner circle sits down and starts talking, we learn something new about the greatest electric guitarist of the twentieth century. Here's why that still matters.
Andy LaRocque has left King Diamond after nearly 40 years. Gus G. — the Firewind founder and former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist — is stepping in to compose, record and tour, opening a genuinely new chapter for one of metal's most important bands.
