Wasted will represent Boise at the prominent Northwest Hardcore Fest in Portland, Oregon, in August and won Boise High School’s Battle of the Bands in 2024. The band is hopeful this genre of music is ...

Choosing the best acoustic guitar for your personal needs is a tough one. With so many options on offer these days it’s not surprising that many find themselves faced with option paralysis when ...

If someone were to compile a list of the best British guitarists in history, David Gilmour would have to be on there. Without his talent, Pink Floyd may never have become a truly culture-shaking act ...

Jimi Hendrix: The left-handed legend flipped his Fender Stratocasters, creating a signature sound that revolutionized rock and earned him a place among the greatest guitarists ever.

It’s a labor of love,” Mike Campbell says of his group, the Dirty Knobs. “It’s something I started doing between Heartbreakers tours to try out new songs and to keep in the groove. We would go and ...

The sideman who served for 24 years as a co-lead guitarist in the touring version of the Eagles, Steuart Smith, has officially retired, taking his leave midway through the group’s stint at ...

The Eagles are flying without touring guitarist Steuart Smith, who is stepping away from the rock band because of health issues. “It is with profound regret that, due to performance issues ...

The guitar builder is firming up its footing for 2025 with new signature models for King, Michael Amott, and Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein ...

The most striking of the new builds is the new affordable Annihilator X variant of Misfits man Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein’s signature guitar. Surprisingly for a budget build, none of the ...

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The Kiss guitarist is a proud symbol of individuality. With ‘New York Groove’, he captured a simple stomping riff that somehow embodied the singularity of the Big Apple and its funky denizens in a way ...

John Sykes, a hard-rock guitarist and singer who played with Thin Lizzy before joining Whitesnake for its smash 1987 album and later forming Blue Murder, has died of cancer. He was 65. The news ...