Whether you’re reviving yourself after a late night, clinking glasses over a leisurely brunch, or mixing something bold to ...

"[The riffs] came from songs I had written, music I had written. I consider them my parts," Hammett stood firm. "I didn’t feel guilty about that," he admitted, "but I did feel guilty about leaving the ...

A Ramones’ classic makes it onto the list – but which is it? - Roberta Bayley/Redferns We’re going to fall out about this, obviously. But here we go. Let’s just start with the idea that a riff is a ...

Our next Greatest Riffs Loud List is focused on the once-in-a-generation political powerhouse Rage Against the Machine. Though the band only released three original full-length albums, this was still ...

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 ...

There are a number of factors that might make a song immediately recognizable—a whisper, a cough, a G note… But nothing gets our little black hearts racing quite as rapidly as a guitar riff we know ...

What’s that old saying? “What goes around comes around?” All we’re saying is that plenty of new things grow out of old soil. We saw how the ’90s grunge scene killed the hair-farming aspects of ’80s ...

Classic rock music through the years has inspired countless young musicians to learn how to play the guitar. Whether that interest stuck or not depends on the person. However, plenty of now-famous ...

We're not going to lie to you. Most of the awesomely tight power-chord riffs that Dave Davies played for the Kinks sounded pretty much the same. When you get right down to it, Davies – the younger ...

Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood are celebrating 50 years of The Rolling Stones this year. The band released a compilation today titled GRRR!, which spans five decades of work, ...