A thoroughbred instrument solo on a hip-hop song can take it from satisfactory to superior with the quickness. Whether cooked up from scratch in the studio or crafted due to some production magic, the ...

The guitar, the banjo, the mandolin, the fiddle, and the upright bass are just a few of the instruments commonly associated with country music. Though there is one instrument missing from that list, ...

It's E3 2015, and it's time to see Rock Band 4. I'm excited, if only to get my hands on some plastic instruments again. It's been too long. There was a time, not terribly long ago, where Guitar Hero ...

David MacCubbin cut the wolf pawprints and laid the mother-of-pearl into the ebony fretboard. The neck will be fitted, glued and bolted to the body of the acoustic guitar, which is made of rosewood ...

Its sound is haunting, but rarely heard. Its appearance is beautiful, but rarely seen. It is an instrument that has been largely absent from the professional music scene since the early to mid-19th ...

What is rock and roll without energy-pulsating electric guitar solos? Throughout rock and roll history, guitar solos have sent the guitarist and the audience into spirit-like trances and unmatched ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. "I'm going solo, man!" The lack of stand-alone instruments for Harmonix's Rock Band--the $169.99 Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 bundled version and ...

Eddie Van Halen of Van Halen performs on the Hide Your Sheep Tour, at Madison Square Garden, New York City, 8th October 1982. (Photo by Larry Marano/Getty Images) When the Van Halen brothers started ...

LONDON — Jeff Beck is considered one of the greatest and most influential guitarists in rock ‘n’ roll history. Now the instruments he used to create his iconic sound are going up for auction. Christie ...

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 ...