To take a flyover of Steve Lukather’s long and storied career is to essentially reminisce about the heights of the past 40 ...

“Beat It, we did it backwards: Michael’s lead vocal and the Eddie Van Halen guitar solo were done with a couple of small overdubs but no click track. Jeff [Porcaro] made a click track and then a drum ...

When Jackson and Jones sought to revisit the sound they experimented with on Beat It, they turned to the Billy Idol guitarist ...

is now 80 and he delivered the supple guitar mastery we eagerly want, on Richard Thompson’s “Tear-Stained Letter” and the extended solo margins of his anthem “Country Boy at Heart.” But, moving over ...

Bunnie Xo just released her annual dirty Christmas song, and this time, it's a twangy original called "Come Here Cowboy." ...

Kim Deal has been in the music business for a long time, but she still encountered some surprises while making her first solo album. Choosing the cover art ... sea with her guitar, some amps ...

President, I found myself back Downtown to check out a new live music space called The Beat. Despite all the noise leading up ...

The guitar, which is featured on the cover of Beck’s Grammy-winning 1975 ... hard-rock progenitors the Yardbirds and went on to a solo career that incorporated rock, jazz, blues and even opera.

Cover songs are a divisive topic in music, at once celebrated for their ability to bring new life to old material while also ...

IPR Studio One contributor Joe Alton was curious about Americana, and dug into the question of genre and definition with ...