Guitar solos – we love them. A great guitar solo can elevate a great song to the higher level. And many of us can learn a lot the skills and styles of the idols that managed that rare combination. In ...

One goal of the alternative rock guitarist is to avoid rock clichés. And one of rock’s biggest clichés is the guitar solo.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Sure, everybody loves a guitar show-off, melting picks and blistering fingers as they ...

What are the best metalcore guitar solos? It's something fans are hotly debating. With its emphasis on down-tuned chugs and crushing breakdowns, metalcore is not necessarily a subgenre commonly ...

Released as a lead single from the third studio album of the same name, it became one of Kravitz's biggest hits in the U.K., ...

Guitar solos can really go either way. If placed or executed poorly, they can kill the emotion and momentum of a song. This is especially true of long, boring solos, devoid of any kind of intention, ...

Mr. Ayers is an author, the president of Beggars Group US and a musician. His memoir “My Life in the Sunshine” will be published in June. When I recently saw the singer-songwriter Adrianne Lenker of ...