When NME gave Johnny Marr the Godlike Genius Award, editor Mike Williams said, “Marr had played a role in rewriting the history of music with The Smiths.” The guy is a guitar legend, but the best ...

On this day (July 30) in 1955, Johnny Cash entered the Sun Records studio in Memphis, Tennessee, and recorded the original rendition of “Folsom Prison Blues.” He would later release the song as a ...

When a gig prevented Elvis Costello from making a recording session for Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes – an album of “lost” Bob Dylan lyrics that Costello, Marcus Mumford and My Morning ...

In the role of six-string picker, there’s no one quite like Johnny Marr. Most were first introduced to his unmistakable style—some not-quite-rhythm, not-quite-lead player who somehow managed to leave ...

*Johnny Guitar Watson, one of the music industries most beloved guitarist was silenced by a massive heart attack in Yokohama, Japan while in the middle of one of his Grammy nominated songs “Superman ...

Following up on last week's announcement of Guitar Hero 5, USA Today and Activision have revealed the first batch of songs and new details for the fall-due sequel. As expected, the multi-instrument ...