Whether you’re reviving yourself after a late night, clinking glasses over a leisurely brunch, or mixing something bold to ...

It's well known that Metallica have a meticulous process for constructing songs, but where does one even begin when Kirk Hammett submits 700 riffs for what would become 72 Seasons? It's a staggering ...

"[The riffs] came from songs I had written, music I had written. I consider them my parts," Hammett stood firm. "I didn’t feel guilty about that," he admitted, "but I did feel guilty about leaving the ...

We've teamed up with Unprocessed guitarist Manuel Gardner Fernandes to show off the riffs that taught him! From Metallica to ...

It’s no secret that the guitar is the backbone of pretty much every song. Whether it’s a railing, electric solo that makes listeners want to break out their best air guitar, a stripped-down acoustic ...

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 ...

What’s that old saying? “What goes around comes around?” All we’re saying is that plenty of new things grow out of old soil. We saw how the ’90s grunge scene killed the hair-farming aspects of ’80s ...

You’ll notice classics like “Smoke on the Water,” “Iron Man,” and “Enter Sandman” missing. And don’t forget the sweet ones: “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” “Sweet Home Alabama,” and “Sweet Emotion.” One could ...

Listen To This Eddie is a weekly column that examines the important people and events in the classic rock canon and how they continue to impact the world of popular music. The rock and roll world ...

Sometimes riffs can be really dumb, the first thing that happens when you hit a sequence of notes in a particular chord. Guitarists stumble across them, perhaps incredulous that no one has played this ...