After flunking the audition simply because of his guitar choice, Morse could have turned deep purple with rage – but it was the making of him ...

Players often get quite passionate about Strandberg guitars – they either really love the lightweight headless wonders or ...

Smashing Pumpkins, Michael Monroe, Jay Buchanan, Joan Armatrading, BB King, Ten Years After, The Mission, The Boomtown Rats and more.

The 33-year-old blues musician first came to the city as a fan attending the Chicago Blues Festival. He’s now a staple of the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This early access deal runs until 28 November, giving you plenty of time to jump in. Inside, ...

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, ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

When Led Zeppelin formed in London in 1968, the music world didn’t quite know what had hit it. Jimmy Page on guitar, Robert Plant on vocals, John Paul Jones on bass and keys, and John Bonham on drums ...

"I'm not exactly a straight arrow..." Freestyle Digital Media has revealed the first official trailer for Guitar Lessons, an indie dramedy from Canada created by filmmaker Aaron James. Even though ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Led Zeppelin is in the middle of a very big week on the Billboard ...

Back in 2021, I wrote an essay about the great musicians who, surprisingly, had performed at my high school, in Kansas City, in the nineteen-sixties: the Crystals, the Drifters, Booker T. & the M.G.’s ...

Jimmy Page was a guitarist in the Yardbirds and one of the busiest session musicians in London in the mid-‘60s when he first proposed forming a group of his own with the Who’s rhythm section—and ...