It’s no secret that the guitar is the backbone of pretty much every song. Whether it’s a railing, electric solo that makes listeners want to break out their best air guitar, a stripped-down acoustic ...

The '80s were a golden age for guitar-driven rock and roll. Coming strong off the hard rock scene of the '70s and bolstered by the emergence of MTV, riff rock has never been as popular as it was ...

One of the most defining factors of rock music is the guitar riffs. Throughout the genre’s history, there have been several songs defined by the musicianship, particularly guitarists. In the musical ...

It's a rocking trip through musical history in just over 12 minutes. Chicago guitar salesman Alex Chadwick takes YouTube viewers from 1950s hit "Mr. Sandman" through surf rock, Ozzy Osbourne, Bruce ...

There's a reason certain guitar riffs stop you cold the moment they hit. They don't just open songs - they carry whole worlds inside them.A real riff is a story compressed into a few seconds of sound.

Wow. It turns out Telegraph readers really like guitar music – and have very strong opinions about it. I’m not going to say that’s a complete surprise – in writing a piece about the 30 greatest guitar ...

If the flannelly, lo-fi nature of ’90s grunge killed the hairspray bravado of ’80s hair metal, then the 2000s definitely brought back some of its technicality and musicianship. The first decade of ...

WORLD GUITAR DAY 2018: Many will argue that the best guitar riffs have already been written, a market cornered by the axe-legends of the '60s and '70s. Whilst some of those iconic riffs will never be ...

With this being Halloween week, IGN Music decided to compile a list of ten of the creepiest guitar riffs in rock and metal. There's everything from death-metal to college-rock on this countdown so it ...