Cream, despite its extremely short tenure, delivered a number of the most iconic songs in rock history. Forbes listed Cream ...

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While My Guitar Gently Weeps is frequently cited among The Beatles' most iconic tracks, particularly from the latter half of their career, but the track actually has uncredited contributions from a ...

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 ...

The 30-second, nine-bar solo is one of the most recognisable in all of music, and players across the world believe it is worthy of its icon status. "Bohemian Rhapsody" voted best guitar solo by Guitar ...

There's a particular kind of silence that follows a great guitar solo. Not the silence of an ending, but the silence of a listener trying to process something that moved faster than words. Some solos ...

Vince Gill was a recent guest on the Rolling Stone All Access podcast where he was cornered into answering a pretty prolific question: What is your favorite guitar solo of all-time? At first, Gill was ...

Guitar solos are the backbone of rock music. Since the genre’s inception, the guitar has been the thing that made or broke a song. As time went on, the instrument got more and more spotlight, and ...

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 ...