Getting your guitar set up and maintained properly is vital to playing well and sounding great. If your guitar strings can’t resonate and intonate properly you’re automatically at a disadvantage. So ...

There’s something about the allure of picking up a guitar, whether you have aspirations of playing to sold-out arenas every night or just want to noodle around while passing the time at home. Playing ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. An amplifier is a vital companion for bringing out the ...

Whether you're a fan of hard rock, punk, or blues, the electric guitar has become a staple instrument in pop and rock culture. Making its way into the music industry in the 1930s, the electric guitar ...

Buying your first guitar is a big decision. If you're opting to go electric for your first, there's an incredible amount of choice out there, so much so that it can be hard to wrap your head around at ...

They say nobody wants to be a rock star any more, because it’s easier and more lucrative to do nail varnish tutorials on YouTube. Poppycock, fiddlesticks and balderdash. Also codswallop, baloney and ...

Guitar players a century ago sometimes struggled to get their instrument heard. That all changed when a small group of inventors added something into the mix – electricity. “This is really it,” said ...

I remember the first time I saw Eddie Van Halen on MTV, the way he played two hands on the fingerboard during his short “Jump” guitar solo. I loved his cool “Frankenstein” guitar, so named because he ...