Let’s not waste any time here. Paste staff and contributors came together to build a definitive ranking of the greatest guitarists of all time. Here are 150 icons, forgotten heroes, and the best and ...

Record of the Year “DtMF,” Bad Bunny “Manchild,” Sabrina Carpenter “Anxiety,” Doechii “Wildflower,” Billie Eilish ...

Did you know there are at least 15 rock and metal songs that were written in tribute to late grunge musicians? The Seattle music scene that formed in the late '80s was a tight-knit community of bands ...

Kirk Hammett (Metallica guitarist): I could tell it was really blossoming into something to be reckoned with. Every song we came up with was like the greatest thing. Every time we’d write another it ...

When it comes to the greatest classic rock debut albums of all time, it is relatively subjective—though some works do stick ...

Sometimes, you just need to crank up those old rock tunes and let yourself feel all the feels. The ‘80s were a golden era for rock music, and among the headbangers and anthems, there was a treasure ...

The intergalactic shock rock legends known as GWAR just did something nobody saw coming — and the internet absolutely cannot handle it. "It smells so clean!" a bandmate yells off-camera as the ...

Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive!, one of the bestselling live albums of all time, is turning 50. You won’t find that on this list, however: instead there’s metal, soul, and an ‘indecently ...

Don Dokken, frontman of the ‘80s metal band Dokken, has opened up about the band’s “disaster” reunion tour. On the Dec. 25 episode of the SDR Show, Dokken, 72, talked about how the band reunited in ...

In the 1980s, a legendary hair metal band soared to the top of the charts with a song fueled by its frontman’s real-life heartbreak. The power ballad, titled "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," became one of ...

We’re about a quarter-century removed from the days when nu metal ruled the airwaves, and the once-maligned subgenre of music continues to hold a hell of a lot more cultural significance than its ...

Music in the 1980s was distinct. While artists today seem to borrow from the gamut of music history, musicians in the ’80s were doing their own thing, carving out a unique sound that couldn’t be ...