A fan-voted ranking crowned one of Steely Dan’s smoothest cuts, “Hey Nineteen,” among the greatest yacht rock songs of the 1980s.

Ambition was at an all-time high in the 70s classic rock scene. These four songs show off that multi-part excitement that ...

Blair Thornton, the guitarist and songwriter best known for his years with Bachman-Turner Overdrive, turns 76 on July 23.

There’s a palpable energy one experiences at a Zac Brown Band concert, which was on full display last night at the group’s ...

On the first of four sold-out nights at Chicago’s United Center, the band Rush — with a touring female drummer in a seat made ...

From "Long Long Time" and "Blue Bayou" to her hit duets with Aaron Neville, these are the 40 best Linda Ronstadt songs for ...

The marriage between J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium and the rock arena was forged in the cultural crucible of the late 1960s and 1970s. For the 'flower power' generation and the burgeoning heavy metal ...

July 6 marks a special milestone for one of the unsung heroes of 1970s soft rock. Rik Elswit, the longtime guitarist for Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, turns 81 today. Best known for his distinctive ...

Choosing the Big 4 of guitar solos? Provocative is one word for the task. Thankless is another. As we know, most any rock song worth its salt has a guitar solo. That means there are hundreds of ...

The rock instrumental has the unenviable task of grasping the listener's attention, and then keeping it, without relying on words and catchy choruses to do so. Done poorly, the tune feels repetitive ...

A singer and and guitarist for a 1970s rock band is dead at age 76. Dennis Locorriere, best known as the lead singer and guitarist for Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, died Saturday while surrounded by ...

Guitar World readers ranked Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption” solo second greatest of all time. The solo is praised as groundbreaking and for inspiring a generation of guitarists since 1978. Guitarists ...