Interest in Tharpe has grown in recent years. Back in 2011, BBC4 screened a documentary, Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother ...

The Beatles met Love in February 1968, when they all went to study Transcendental Meditation in Rishikesh, India, with guru ...

T he guitar solo; odds are, if you've been a music fan for long enough, you've seen and heard quite a few of them, ranging ...

The Heartbreaker on his unspoken bond with Tom Petty, “sideman syndrome,” and Bob Dylan being jealous of “The Boys of Summer.

CLEVELAND — Three-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Eric Clapton is coming to Cleveland this fall as part of a limited run of 2025 U.S. tour dates. The guitar legend will perform at Rocket ...

Music stories always get my attention, so check out this Raspberry Pi Pico system for a sound-effect pedal. Not so much Rock 'n' Roll as Pitch 'n' Roll ('n' Yaw!). A MIDI system, its maker dubs it the ...

Most of the best guitar riffs are usually the ones that, when one’s fingers hit the fretboard, simply play themselves. The whole point behind songwriting is to reach that zone where it becomes a ...

A pioneer who influenced everyone from Chuck Berry to Keith Richards, Sister Rosetta Tharpe played rock’n’roll way before anyone else. When singer Brittany Howard stepped to the mic to induct ...

CLEAN DiRT presents from Tokyo JAPAN .... Tokyo masters of rock&roll mayhem. 30 years young & the foot ain’t ever come off that car crash accelerator pedal. Still swerving, dead man curving, burnin’ ...

Before it became a staple of classic rock radio, the song turned Tom Cruise into a star. Only then, after Stranger In Town had been in the stores for nearly a year, did “Old Time Rock & Roll ...