The morning after a heavy night at the star-studded Classic Rock Awards, we caught up with former Guns N' Roses, current Velvet Revolver and solo guitar star Slash to talk riffs. And he knows his riff ...

Metallica won't be hurting for any lack of material when they do finally decide to sit down and record a new album. Kirk Hammett tells Guitar World that he's been piling up the guitar riffs in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Most dreams are forgotten within seconds of waking. The world of rock 'n' roll can thank Keith Richards for keeping his tape player running. It was 50 years ago that the Rolling ...

(CBS News) I'm such a total 90's kid. So the second I saw this video, I couldn't resist posting it up. Check out 50 great guitar riffs from the early 90's and get ready to feel nostalgia kick in hard.

Chuck Berry started a revolution when he put the guitar front and center, paving the way for classic riffs in rock music. By 1969, Jimmy Page set the standard with “Whole Lotta Love”, and decades ...

It’s a slow month for noteworthy new metal, so we’re going to try something different this month. First up: a quick rundown of tracks from January’s handful of standout heavy releases. Then, we’ll ...

Life-wise, to use the title of the memoir Keith Richards has written with the assistance of James Fox, the craggy-faced Rolling Stone has ended up in a good place. At age 67 (his birthday was Saturday ...

If guitar solos are the sentences of music, then riffs are the phrases. Riffs draw us into the song: They're the billboard, the bumper sticker and the pull quote. As much as we like to think we have ...

Given that Metallica are one of the few rock acts that can still reliably sell a ton of records, the decision about who gets a piece of the band’s heavy metal pie is a big one — and one the metal ...