When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Stephanie Cabral Back in the early 1980s, Alex Skolnick was pretty much like any other ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. On the surface, a jazz album inspired by guitar-driven rock and punk may ...

(Critic's Notebook): Can a jazz guitarist touch the void? What role can darkness play in improvised music, which has historically been built on a spirit of earnest collaboration and bright, ...

How did a guitar that failed to grab its intended market – the market it was literally named after – end up becoming the instrument of choice across surf-rock, post-punk, new wave, power pop, shoegaze ...

Back in the late sixties, when rock musicians started to explore more complex things, the music became at the same time more interesting and, well, complicated at the same time. It was the advent of ...

Veteran guitarist Kim Do-kyun, a member of the legendary heavy metal band Baekdusan, pose for photos prior to his interview at the Seoul headquarters of Yonhap News Agency on Nov. 3, 2025. (PHOTO NOT ...

Jazz guitar has always been a dynamic art form, adapting to new styles while staying rooted in tradition. From the early swing and bebop pioneers to today’s fusion innovators, guitarists have expanded ...

Guitars are the greatest. They have been the foundation for some of the best rock songs over the past eight decades or so, and they have rarely ever let us down. Plug an electric guitar into a pedal ...

Buddy Guy has been playing the guitar for basically his entire life. He was born in 1936 in Lettsworth, Louisiana, a community just a stone's throw from the Mississippi River that, at the time of this ...

Released in 1956, Rock Around The Clock was a musical film featuring the talents of Bill Haley & His Comets, and named after the group’s highly successful rock and roll record. Haley and his band were ...

It's a daunting task picking the cream of the crop from a decade that was defined by its staggering technical virtuosity. But we're going to take our best crack at it — and attempt to rationalize some ...

I first heard Nels Cline in 1999, when he and drummer Gregg Bendian released Interstellar Space Revisited. The original Interstellar Space album was a set of four saxophone-drums duos played by John ...