They say at times you can't hear the sheer brilliance of a song until it's broken down on acoustic guitar, so for this edition of Gear Factor, you'll get a lot of brilliance from some of rock and ...

Fender is one of the leaders in the guitar industry and we recently visited the guitar giant's Los Angeles office to speak with the CEO of the company Andy Mooney, who not only took us through a ...

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 ...

Rock ‘n’ roll ain’t noise pollution. In fact, what makes so many legendary rock songs memorable is the guitar riff, whether it’s layered with heavy reverb or ear-crunching distortion. The first patent ...

It’s easy to imagine that larger-than-life rock stars are born with an electric guitar in hand, ready to unleash a barrage of thunderous riffs before they’ve even taken their first steps. But you ...

For at least a decade now, rap beats have been getting fiercer every year. The biggest producers in the genre largely abandoned traditional acoustic instrumentation, instead embracing the abrasive ...