Key West is a “Guitar Town.” We have more guitar players than we have bartenders but we only have one “Caffeine” Carl Wagoner ...

From rural South Carolina to Ornette Coleman’s circle, he built a guitar style that defied categorization and influenced ...

James “Blood” Ulmer once recalled growing up in South Carolina, where he was exposed to two kinds of blues. “Down South we had two kinds of blues,” he said in a 1990 interview with Guitar Player. “One ...

Darius Partovi started taking classical piano lessons when he was 7, but he soon grew restless and gave them up. It wasn't until COVID-19 shut down schools that he returned to his keyboard out of ...

Detroit has always been known as a music city. Motown. Detroit Rock City. From small clubs to legendary stages, the sound of rock guitars has long echoed through its neighborhoods. For Steve Mazur, ...

The sequel to the 2018 faith-based music biopic has to work a bit to give its hero another crisis of faith. The movies we call faith-based often take the form of disaster porn. It only makes sense.

Some songs are so timeless, so anthemic and so succinct that audiences can't help but return to them again and again. John Lennon's "Imagine" is almost certainly one of them. In October of 1971, ...

At just 17, Tinashe McGowan is such an accomplished pianist that he will perform at the Basically Beethoven Festival in July at Dallas' Moody Performance Hall. A 2025 Booker T. Washington High School ...

Imagine Dragons' lead singer, Dan Reynolds, ignited controversy by kissing a Palestinian flag during a Milan concert, part of their Loom tour. The gesture drew mixed reactions online, with some ...

Iron Maiden's Adrian Smith has been playing guitar for the group for more than four decades now. But his recent work with Richie Kotzen offers a look at what it could have been like if he hadn't ...