Canada’s current affairs magazine, Maclean’s, poses the question – in the eyes of today’s bands and pop music, is the guitar solo effectively dead?  A number of so-called rock musicians and guitarists are alleging that if you play one in a rock song right now, it’s almost laughable and taboo – very different to the [...]

I’m always on the lookout for new music to inspire my guitar playing.  It’s also nice to hear something fresh now and again, but how do you sort out the wheat from the chaff – especially when services such as iTunes puts millions of songs at your fingertips? Enter StumbleAudio, a streaming service designed to help [...]

One of my good friends actually camped out in the freezing winter cold for the launch of the 3G iPhone in Australia, and managed to obtain the dubious title of the first person in the city of Melbourne to get a 3G iPhone.  For his efforts, his mug was plastered all over the newspapers, interviewed [...]

Ah, a classic scene from This is Spinal Tap (1984) – a half docu/mocumentary about the comeback of heavy metal band Spinal Tap, who were infamous as the world’s loudest band.  But how do they earn this title?  By turning their amps up to 11 of course, when everyone else is at 10.

One of my favourite guitarists/artists of late has been John Mayer with his easy, bluesy tunes and riffs.  As part of Rolling Stone’s Secrets of the Guitar Heroes series, they chat briefly with the man himself.  According to him, the perfect guitar tone sounds like this: There’s so many clichés about this, which I hate, [...]

Not to be outdone by Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time, Yahoo have published a list of their own, of the 25 Most Rockin’ Guitar Riffs. List of the Day undertook the task of picking out 25 infamous guitar riffs that depending on your era were among the ones you mangled [...]

Everything is happening on the internet these days, and the music industry is no exception.  BandFind.com is a new site that aims to promote a social network for musicians and those in the industry, to help them meet others and advance their careers. BandFind.com is a social utility that provides the music industry with an [...]

I think every guitarist has tried to play a rendition of Eric Clapton’s ‘Layla‘ or Led Zepplin’s ‘Stairway To Heaven‘ at some point in their musical lives; it’s no surprise that they’re on Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time. This is what makes a great rock & roll guitar sound: [...]