Sometimes, it feels like Jinks was born to be the Texas outlaw we see on stage today. And while there is probably truth in that statement, Jinks didn’t start his music career in the Texas country ...

After the one-two punch of Rising Force and Marching out, rock guitar was never the same again. Malmsteen takes us back to ...

The rock journeyman recalls the making of a lost song with ex-Rolling Stone, channeling Hendrix with Noel Redding and his ...

For decades, an obsessive duo of guitar guys has been amassing a definitive collection. The art these objects created changed ...

From a former military airfield to a stage suspended over a lake, many of Europe’s best festivals offer spectacular scenery ...

Of course, there are bright spots: Sam Fender – while not ... credited with pioneering heavy metal. Regardless of whether one subscribes to that view, the band's impact and status as British ...

AEROSMITH were forced to retire early last year after frontman Steven Tyler suffered a serious vocal cord injury. The US ...

“I think we were one of the early heavy metal bands without knowing it,” the ... “At the time,” Butler continued, “he was playing a Fender [Bass] VI, which I’d never seen before ...

Bands performed for soldiers in Vietnam ... anthem near the end of this festival is legendary. Playing on his Fender Stratocaster, his distorted version of the renowned melody elicited the ...

Rock music history is riddled with iconic guitars, signature sounds, and legendary partnerships between artists and ...

Boyer had been playing a Fender Stratocaster, but didn’t love it for the ... In high school he was in a band with the very metal name of Bastille. But later in Oxford, Boyer says because his Hagstrom ...

My main squeeze is a 1973 Fender Princeton ... channel is great for heavy metal, but that's not all. The revoiced non-master volume clean channel features a dual-band EQ and higher headroom ...