The wah pedal is not without its detractors, of course. Some critics argue that it becomes a crutch for guitarists, muddying ...

When you press the play button, the album begins with a celebratory cannon blast that sounds like fireworks going off. Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) — Welcome to the land of electric ...

What starts as a breakdown of Jimi Hendrix’s guitar playing quickly becomes a deeper exploration of how one musician completely transformed the electric guitar forever. Emerging during the late 1960s, ...

As Guitar Week plucks on, we’re taking stock of our favorite guitar-featuring scenes in film and TV history. There aren’t any real guidelines for eligibility here, but we unintentionally stayed away ...

1984 was a banner year for music in the eighties, and 1985 somehow topped it. Of course, the midway point of the decade didn’t have a Like a Virgin or Purple Rain, but it didn’t need titles like those ...

Our reviewer Mark Kelly is a fan of the work of Gong and he was really looking forward to covering the opening performance at this year’s Brighton Psych Fest, but sadly Thameslink and Southern trains ...

Episode 3 of Alien: Earth opens with Wendy bolting down a broken corridor of the USCSS Maginot, searching for her brother. Steam emits from unseen places, and debris pokes at her from the darkness. It ...

Sceptics! Neophytes! Zappa obsessives! Check out MOJO’s bespoke Frank Zappa mixtape – ditching the dirty gags (er, mostly) for hot grooves, hotter guitars and exquisite orchestrations... “Four ...

Here is Shiflett on his P-90 epiphany, why everyone should have 500K pots on their guitar, and everything you need to know about his new signature Tele When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Paste has been in existence since July 2002, but it’s taken 22 years for us to sit down and make a “Greatest Albums of All Time” list. Every reputable outlet has done this at some point or another; ...

The first time I heard Spectral Evolution, I was walking through a park as dusk was starting to settle. As the album’s last sighing drone faded out, I started to hear evening bird song and planes ...

Even your favorite rock god makes a mistake every now and again. And not just onstage or while taking part in some booze-driven shenanigans. In fact, as you'll see in the following list of Screwups in ...