Kim Gordon talks about her amazing new solo album, 'Play Me,' the links between visual art and music, feminism, Sonic Youth, ...

The guitarist is the main character in these three rock songs. Revisit these instrument-led tracks to witness guitar genius!

There aren’t enough guitar solos anymore. I mean, there are guitar solos still happening—in the metalspheres of the world, most explicitly—but rock and roll’s got a serious solo deficiency going on.

I first heard Brian Eno’s surrealist masterpiece “Baby’s on Fire” as an actual baby, more or less: it was one of my parents’ household staples. For years I moved through life under the very confident ...

Some guitar solos are more than just musical moments, they are the sounds that defined generations and influenced millions of musicians around the world. In this video we explore twenty of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...

On March 18, 2025, the day Mike Campbell’s memoir Heartbreaker came out, he posted the opening sentence of the book on his Instagram account: “You don’t know about me without having heard a band by ...

Here's nine of the best and most memorable nu-metal guitar solos and leads, chosen by Tetrarch's Diamond Rowe. Now, nu-metal may not be regarded as the subgenre with the flashiest, most nimble and ...

“Heartbreaker” is the story of an artist whose music many readers have danced to, though they may not recognize his name. For decades, Mike Campbell not only played lead guitar with Tom Petty and the ...

“Yes, Tom [Petty] was not a perfect person. Neither am I. Neither are you, you know,” guitarist Mike Campbell says, a bit testily, during a recent phone interview about his new memoir Heartbreaker.

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 ...