As The Metal Gods gear up to celebrate Painkiller’s 35th anniversary, we revisit and re-order every track on their ...

Light My Fire” wasn’t the Doors’ first single — that honor went to “Break on Through (To the Other Side).” It was actually ...

A song heavy with restlessness, "Urge for Going" was written in the mid-'60s before Mitchell left Canada, and was originally recorded by her friend Tom Rush. It was eventually released as a B-side to ...

Krieger explains how the song changed from the time they played it in clubs until it became a chart-topping hit single ...

Ozzy Osbourne’s improbable journey from a laborer in Birmingham, England, to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame happened on the shoulders of great rock guitarists. It began with Tony Iommi and Black Sabbath ...

This tune was a major Bob Marley classic, but Strummer took it on with none other than Johnny Cash for the latter’s 2003 box set album Unearthed, Vol. 3: Redemption Songs. It’s a lovely late-career ...

Trying to choose 15 songs from Quincy Jones' illustrious career in music is a steep challenge, but you can't go wrong with ...

Using Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles and She's Always a Woman by Billy Joel, we walk through the steps to deciphering the ...

But some players have become so good at playing the in-game guitar that they’re performing acoustic covers of real songs in ...

Once she knew that her new album was going to be about grief and longing for closure, Sophie Allison rethought the way she was writing songs. Her last album Sometimes, Forever, produced by Oneohtrix ...

Learn more The guitarist in your life may seem like a hard person to shop for — they already have more guitar picks than they need — but there are actually plenty of unique and useful gifts to ...

Gaga's first UK Number 1 single, Just Dance has chart units in excess of 2.1 million in the UK, making it her fourth most popular song, and with 953,000 digital downloads, not that far away from ...