The Final Countdown is one of rock's evergreen anthems, but Norum admits he thought it was “dreadful” at first ...

Determined to be a star from age 10, his highlights include seeing Yngwie Malmsteen's first US show, joining Manowar, being ...

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.

Let’s start with a more modern pop song, shall we? This jam from Lady Gaga is definitely a pop song from a pop diva, but it has such a notable glam rock and even heartland rock edge to it. Some might ...

We classic rock fans love that moment when a song swings into the guitar solo, or less frequently, the piano solo. In the genre, the two main instruments used to play these mid-song solos are ...

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 ...

Billy Corgan is an underrated guitar soloist – and he knows it. His tortured leads on vintage Smashing Pumpkins cuts like Soma and Quiet through to his mid-noughties guitar-hero rebirth on Zeitgeist ...

It seems like Charli XCX's penchant for experimentation shows no sign of slowing down. After last year's Brat summer, the ...