It often feels like pop-punk is treated as if it’s the irritating youngest sibling of the rock world — a genre whose music is criticized for being juvenile and rarely breaking new ground. So it's not ...

The rise of alternative rock and the dichotomy between punk and heavy metal didn’t keep guitarists in the 1990s from shredding guitar solos.

Shrapnel Records is probably the most important record label of all time when speaking about the development of the shred style of guitar playing. Founded in the ’80s, Shrapnel released albums from a ...

Guitar gods have nothing on guitar goddesses. For about a hundred years now, women have been doing some of the best, coolest and most interesting guitar playing around. From elemental folk and blues ...