Some moments in music don't just play - they hit you somewhere deep and don't let go. A truly great guitar solo is like that.

A thoroughbred instrument solo on a hip-hop song can take it from satisfactory to superior with the quickness. Whether cooked up from scratch in the studio or crafted due to some production magic, the ...

Blues rock is often known genre-wide for featuring a killer guitar solo or two, especially when it comes to these three ...

Fact: Guitar solos are awesome. Plain and simple. They’re just as much fun to see live as they are to listen to, as they fully display the guitarist’s raw passion for the instrument. While solos are a ...

About two minutes into “Outta My Head,” from the new album Free Spirit by pop-R&B star Khalid, a strange, foreign sound bubbles to the song’s shiny disco-pop surface. It’s a squiggly, pitchy thing ...

There is a reason “Free Bird” is the most requested song at college parties and barrooms—it is electric to the utmost degree. While the song is great, the one facet of the song that people rave over ...

From the elaborate piano breakdown in Eric Clapton’s “Layla” to the guitar solo in the Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” the instrumental solo is an iconic part of pop. But to a musicologist, ...

You only had to listen to their ’65 release, Rubber Soul, to see how quickly the changes were coming. On that album, which George Harrison called the first where they were fully fledged potheads, ...

Dublin's finest export? Not Guinness, but Irish jazz guitarist Louis Stewart (January 5, 1944—August 20, 2016). A guitarist of tremendous skill, invention and personality, Stewart was certainly the ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO — Other guitar virtuosos might crave at least a little downtime between concluding a Las Vegas concert residency ...