He might be the most underrated guitarist of his generation, but Neil Young has had a powerful impact on rock music. One of ...

Some songs do not just enter the conversation, they take control of it. The opening notes hit, the room shifts, and suddenly ...

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, ...

There's a particular kind of silence that follows a great guitar solo. Not the silence of an ending, but the silence of a listener trying to process something that moved faster than words. Some solos ...

A 1980 song from one of the most beloved and respected rock music icons has just been celebrated for featuring one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yacht rock first set sail over 50 years ago, but the sound just keeps getting bigger and bigger. This particular kind of soft rock ...

Brian May has contributed his guitar skills to some of the most iconic rock songs of all time. His riffs on “Bohemian Rhapsody” alone put him in the running for one of rock’s most beloved guitarists.

I first heard Brian Eno’s surrealist masterpiece “Baby’s on Fire” as an actual baby, more or less: it was one of my parents’ household staples. For years I moved through life under the very confident ...

Country songs have great guitar solos, too, and this 1994 hit has one of them. A popular country song is being praised for its standout 30-second guitar solo. The 1994 hit peaked at No. 2 on Billboard ...

There aren’t enough guitar solos anymore. I mean, there are guitar solos still happening—in the metalspheres of the world, most explicitly—but rock and roll’s got a serious solo deficiency going on.