These famous guitar riffs built up blues rock as a genre during its formative years, and they still inspire guitarists today.

The guitar riff is synonymous with rock music. And these iconic riffs by Tom Petty, Nirvana, and The Call continued the tradition in 1989.

When Link Wray recorded “Rumble” in early 1958, most rock-and-roll guitarists were doing everything they could to avoid distortion. Wray did the opposite, unabashedly leaning into it and, in the ...

Music making is increasingly digitized here in 2020, but some analog audio effects are still very difficult to reproduce in this way. One of those effects is the kind of screeching guitar distortion ...

Even though The Beatles honed their chops as one of the best live acts, John Lennon felt that they could only copy the true ...