Ariel Bellvalaire, the Connecticut guitarist who has performed on Broadway as part of the "Dearly Beloved" Prince tribute, landed a spot in Nick West's "I Am The King — The Michael Jackson Experience, ...

Randy Bachman was having severe back pain. His doctor told him that the solution was to stop playing guitar. The main offender was the 1959 Les Paul Standard he’d used to write and record “American ...

This wouldn’t be a list of sick Carlos Santana solos without mentioning his hit song with Rob Thomas, “Smooth”. Some might find this song tacky, considering it came out during the 1990s era of ...

Find three songs with masterful guitar solos that Brian May has lauded in the past. Revisit these mind-boggling riffs.

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, ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

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 ...

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 ...