Chuck Berry's iconic riff from "Johnny B. Goode" was ranked No. 2 on a list of the best guitar riffs ever written, but many ...

The greatest opening guitar riff in rock history didn't come from a rehearsal room, a studio session or years of refinement.

A new poll for the oft-debated topic of Greatest Guitar Riffs has some stupefying results. The U.K. study done in March 2022 by music content and software provider Muse (also owner of Ultimate Guitar) ...

YouTuber Nik Nocturnal steps in for a little history lesson on this edition of Gear Factor. Nocturnal, who has his own band Termina, spoke with us about how his love of guitar evolved over the years, ...

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 ...

Led Zeppelin engineered some of the catchiest guitar riffs ever.

Cream‘s “Sunshine of Your Love” features not only one of the greatest guitar riffs of the ’60s, but one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time. It’s a rite of passage for any burgeoning guitar ...

The title track to Aerosmith's 1975 classic drives harder and faster than almost anything else in their extensive catalog. In fact, there's almost a punk-like surge to the three-minute "Toys in the ...

Blending music styles has become so common that partitioning songs into specific genres almost seems pointless. But the pop artists below released iconic hits by radically altering their usual sound ...

Guitar riffs are the life-blood of a great rock 'n' roll record, making the hair on the back of your next stand on end, or better wrecking your head like a bullet to the brain. So here are 10 of the ...