Music in the 1980s was full of bold new sounds. Let's take a look at 4 guitar amplifiers that helped shape the sound of this iconic decade.

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, ...

The Beatles and the Go-Go’s. Two bands with seemingly little in common: Beauty and the Beat have appeared on far, far fewer lists of all-time best albums than Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, ...

Maximum flash, maximum showmanship, maximum spandex, and maximum hair: This was the '80s — or at least, much of it. Guitars pushed to the absolute forefront of the stage, where folks like Eddie Van ...

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...

Part of what made grunge so likable in the 1990s was its focus on gritty, fuzzy, distorted guitar riffs. It was only natural that rock music would evolve in grunge’s direction. And while the genre’s ...

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For fans of uninhibited guitar heroics, no decade will ever come close to the '80s. Many of these guitarists are routinely ranked near the top of the hard-rock heap. But for every Slash, George Lynch ...

Though pop culture often depicts the '70s as the most rambunctious decade, the '80s were right on par. High schoolers, in particular, knew how to throw a party.

Hard rock and heavy metal legend Bruce Kulick and "the sensei of vintage 1980s guitars" Johnny DiFatta of AXN Guitars have announced a special collaboration to engineer boutique guitars under a new ...