Many guitar riffs are so good that the lyrics don’t matter. They are powerful enough to move listeners at a primal level, and ...

In this latest Loud List, we count down our picks for the 20 Greatest Metal Riffs of All Time. Timelessness may be the most important aspect of an iconic riff. No matter how many decades pass, metal's ...

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Time to enter the 21st century with our Best Metal Riffs lists. From a decade so prominent with excellent heavy music, we've narrowed down the 10 Greatest Metal Riffs from 2000-2009. Though Gojira’s ...

The '80s were a golden age for guitar-driven rock and roll. Coming strong off the hard rock scene of the '70s and bolstered by the emergence of MTV, riff rock has never been as popular as it was ...

There are a number of factors that might make a song immediately recognizable—a whisper, a cough, a G note… But nothing gets our little black hearts racing quite as rapidly as a guitar riff we know ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jimmy Page playing guitar onstage in the 1970s. This evocative composition from Houses Of The Holy balances baroque acoustic ...

There’s a song for all of us that made us want to be musicians at some point in our lives. Whether it’s a short-lived childhood musing or a long-standing dream, the right song can instill a sense of ...

"There's something about a naive apprehension of art that makes it that much nobler to me," Rick Moody observes in "Two Weeks at Music Camp," one of 13 essays collected in On Celestial Music. He's at ...