Nearly 50 years after its release, Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” is still setting the standard for rock guitar greatness.

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Last year, Bob Mould reunited with his Sugar bandmates to record new material for the first time since 1994. Both new tracks House Of Dead Memories and Long Live Love are out now. While a new Sugar ...

Credit to these classic rock bands for continuing to make music, but it just hasn't quite landed how they wanted it to.

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J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

There's a specific kind of silence that falls in a room when a guitar solo lands exactly right. Conversations stop, heads turn, and for a few seconds the whole world seems to shrink down to a single ...

37 years ago this week Mom’s friend Sammy wrapped his car around a tree on Anderson Anthony. He was in a rush to pick up his girlfriend, and now there’s a locker room building named after him. I used ...

This year is shaping up to be one for the musical history books. Our critic picks the best concerts, from Paul Simon to ...