From accidental late-night recordings to fiery real-life events, the origins of rock’s most iconic guitar riffs are as legendary as the songs themselves. These short, powerful sequences have defined ...

All hail the guitar solo — one of the most indestructibly great art forms in all of modern music. There’s nothing quite like ...

Dave Mustaine revisited his garage days with Metallica on Sunday when he and his band Megadeth performed two tracks Mustaine ...

From The Beatles and The Rolling Stones to The Supremes, Pink Floyd and The Stooges, explore the best bands of the 1960s and ...

The passing of Ace Frehley on October 16, 2025, sent a shockwave through the rock community, marking the first loss of an ...

BLUESTEM is a band based in Vancouver, BC. A five-piece band with 4 members from Manitoba that moved out west, bringing a ...

If you absorb the lessons here, you’ll be well on your way to unlocking the horn-throwing mysteries of hard rock.

A trio of menacing albums to rally around in the face of a perilous world. Ryan Prado digs into three albums of note in the Portland Mercury.

Everyone has a favourite Thin Lizzy song, right? So we asked a load of famous folks to pick theirs and tell us why ...

Grappling with a progressive muscular disease and making a new album with his son, the onetime British guitar hero may be ...

From 2009 to 2014, Uta Plotkin was the vocalist for the Portland band Witch Mountain. Those years in American doom had the ...

These 25 legendary tracks were the perfect opening salvo, instantly defining the sound and ambition of rock's greatest albums ...