Someone might copy Speer’s rig down to the last knob setting, and play his guitar melodies note for note, but without Ochoa and Johnson playing, too, the Khruangbin sound cannot be duplicated.

Think of the very sound of Dick Dale’s guitar, how it rumbles and echoes, mimicking the sound of water rising and crashing. This was a deliberate move on his part. The guitarist was also a ...

To music historian and curator John Troutman of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the steel guitar, an instrument invented by a Hawaiian teenager named Joseph Kekuku, isn ...

By the time Dylan arrived on the New York music scene, a complete unknown, Baez was a known. In 1962, she was on the cover of Time, the young face of the folk-music revival.

Eddie Van Halen was a prolific guitarist with a great ear for tone, which meant he didn't overly rely on different effects ...

The singer-songwriter says when he got his four-track and picked up the guitar, he found his voice as an artist ...

Evan Haga, music journalist and editor The Tony Williams Lifetime (featuring John McLaughlin), “Emergency” At its apex, jazz-rock guitar delivers the most bracing elements of a handful of ...

I'm going to look at some of the ways you can minimise tuning issues on your guitar, and even get ahead of them. Because if your guitar isn't in tune you'll never sound good.

The group is set to perform during Hispanic Heritage Weekend before Saturday’s Arizona Diamondbacks game against the ...