Inspired by Tosin Abasi and J Dilla, San's mission to merge modern prog with experimental hip-hop required him to mature as an artist – and he has no plans to stop evolving ...

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All good rock and roll comes back to the guitar riff, but some of the greatest riffs of all time came to these artists purely ...

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Every electric guitar presents a problem. It’s the fascinating sort of problem that musicians delight in confronting, over and over again. But is it ever really solved?

When a Northern Finnish child picked up a kantele mostly to annoy her sister, no one imagined she would become one of the instrument’s boldest contemporary voices.

This post was updated Feb. 24 at 9:40 p.m. Gorillaz’s recent sound took listeners to new heights – the highest mountain. On Sunday, the animated British band Gorillaz performed the entirety of their ...

Everything about Nancy Wilson is cool – her guitar playing, songwriting, onstage moves, how she talks in interviews, her look. She probably eats breakfast cereal in a cool way, too. Being a star was ...

What if the strings of a guitar could float, untethered, held in place by nothing but invisible magnetic forces? It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but Mattias Krantz outlines how he turned ...

Gibson introduced the Hummingbird in 1960 as their first square-shouldered dreadnought. The guitar quickly gained popularity for its distinctive voice and eye-catching aesthetics, featuring the ...

is a concert guitarist of international renown. He is director of guitar at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, adjunct fellow of the University of Western Australia, and associate ...