The electric guitar is the alpha instrument in rock music, but there have been plenty of great acoustic songs as well.

The 1980s didn’t just sound different; it looked different, felt bigger, and pushed rock in multiple directions at once. Arena anthems got shinier. Guitar solos got faster. Alternative scenes got ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...

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 ...

When The Byrds covered Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man”, it helped introduce a new rock sound called jangle pop. The Byrds released the cover only weeks after Dylan’s folk original in 1965. The new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s hard to wrap your head around the fact that five years have already passed since we lost Eddie Van Halen, the fiery guitarist ...

From psychedelic highs to grunge’s breakthrough, we explore 11 defining rock years and the albums that shaped music history ...