The question has been tread to death and comes with about a kajillion provisos that we'll get to: Should a guitar beginner go for an acoustic or electric guitar? While we could straddle the fence with ...

Rod Stewart's career is long, storied, and successful, but the songs he recorded and released in 1971 strongly suggest that he peaked relatively early on, in that very year. Possessing one of the most ...

British-born siblings Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb went from being gawky teenagers trying to earn a buck in 1960s Australia to the Bee Gees, giants of the music world. Their list of achievements is ...

One-part shapely wood block, one-part nickel-plated or stainless steel strings, and one-part circuits and wires: These are the things that rock god dreams are made of. But before you plan on becoming ...

Whether it's their first day behind the wheel or an endless array of instant party flashbacks, the baby boomer generation has a lot to look back on, and first crushes are no exception. More ...

Not only was John Denver a 1970s luminary in his own right, but he also provided the musical fodder with which plenty of other artists in the '60s and '70s found success. As the folk movement of the ...

We've all debated about which cover songs are better than the original versions, and metalheads are no different. What sets the genre apart is its capacity for emotional abandon and unrelenting volume ...

Do you want to protect your guitar from bashes and smashes in addition to dust and humidity, or just the latter? That's the main question to answer when wondering whether or not to buy a hard case or ...

Stevie Nicks has never been shy about professing her adoration for Tom Petty and his music. She even stanned Petty so much that she befriended him and convinced him to give her the song "Stop Draggin' ...

Classic rock — that collection of arena-shaking, guitar-powered songs released between the late 1960s and early 1980s — is a common language at this point, as these are the songs extremely familiar to ...

Cat Stevens wrote and recorded a number of excellent songs of all varieties over his long, successful career, ranging from folk and rock 'n' roll to pop and even religious music, but a love song ...

If you know "Blinded by the Light" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, and you probably do, you may know it more for a misheard lyric than the fact that Bruce Springsteen wrote it, but the song became a No.