Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mike Einziger and Avicii performing live This month, Avicii’s Wake Me Up became the highest-performing dance single in history, ...

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The greatest works of art in history have been very much intentional. Every once in a while, though, an artist will create something of legend, completely by accident. That’s exactly what happened to ...

In his debut GW column, the prog-metal master teaches you the punishing string-skipping techniques behind Spiritbox’s Jaded ...

There's a reason certain guitar riffs stop you cold the moment they hit. They don't just open songs - they carry whole worlds inside them.A real riff is a story compressed into a few seconds of sound.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ah, the '80s... it was a golden period for the explosion of metal, and the period which inspired DevilDriver's Mike Spreitzer to pick up a guitar. “The first song that made me want to play guitar was ...