Bass Week: As bass players we naturally have to know our chords, and ideally a fair bit about harmony and chord progressions ...

Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger is a very creative and dynamic guitarist, utilizing effects with a variety of different playing techniques to get rich soundscapes. This track is a great example of how ...

In his new book Gliders Over Hollywood, promo man Paul Rappaport recounts his adventures in the music business during its ...

Some of the best advice I received when I decided to take up guitar a few months ago was to pick out a guitar that looks cool ...

If you've recently starting playing guitar you’ve probably already tried some of the most common open chords (so called because they include un-fretted or ‘open’ strings), such as C, A and Em. If ...

So, they say that a violin is one of the hardest instruments to learn to play because it’s all in getting a single string (for one thing) to sound so classically sweet. Now, you know a toddler can ...

To mark the occasion in conjunction with our Vinyl Week 2025 celebrations, we've selected our favourite exclusives that will ...

This 52-year-old Aussie band is the story of guitar power chords, playfully suggestive lyrics and plain old survival. Guitarist Angus Young, he of the schoolboy outfit at age 70, is the only original ...

For 54 years, through raucous parties and life’s twists and turns, the author has rocked on with his band.

Since concluding the cycle of the seasons in 2019 with Bon Iver’s masterful fourth album i, i – which represented autumn – ...

Mr. Freeman's guitar solos were throaty and daring and danced around the sax work of greats like Gene Ammons and Charlie ...

Lemmy had a very unique style of bass playing that he made a career off of, but he was always envious of this other bass ...