Newton Faulkner presents his 8 tips to help you keep creating music and improving your skills... There have been few acoustic players in the last decade that have combined chart success and jaw-dropping technique as successfully as Newton Faulkner. His unique take on...

Courtesy Bobby Owsinski - Forbes Entertainment Online “Why Just Making a Living as a Musician... is the New Success.” It used to be that if our best and brightest had any affinity for music at all, they would go to great ends to enter the business, with a long-term vision...

What's the worst onstage guitar failure Zakk Wylde has had to endure? Zakk shares the story of a Marshall amp. malfunction with Ozzy back in 1988 while playing in London England that teaches all guitar players a valuable gear lesson. document.write('\x3Cscript...

by Ross Gerber , Contributor for Forbes online Entertainment Last year, Jimmy Kimmel Live sent a crew to Coachella, the two-weekend music festival held in the middle of the Southern California desert, to ask attendees their opinions about various bands that would ostensibly...

Tom Petty has hit out at EDM, (Electronic dance music), claiming that the entire genre is a joke and is essentially nothing without drugs... "Paying money to watch people playing records while doing designer drugs is just plain stupid." "Watch people play records?" he...

Ford and General Motors are the Unusual Defendants in an Unpaid Music Royalties Lawsuit from the Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies... Normally when you hear the terms "unpaid royalties" and "music" in the same sentence, you assume it must be another beef between...

DUFF MCKAGAN: Admittedly, drinking so much your pancreas pops hardly smacks of genius. But in the post-millennium, the GN’R man studied business and economics at Seattle University, and proved so capable he was able to start his own wealth management firm and write a...

1. The oldest known musical instruments were flutes made from bird bone 42,000 years ago. 2. Handel is thought to have written more notes of music than any other composer. 3. In Singapore, clean toilets and appreciation of music are seen as signs of a gracious society. 4....

10-Year-Old Girl's Guitar Cover Of Slayer Will Blow Your Mind, She Shreds Through 'War Ensemble' Like A Pro [WATCH] If you thought the eighth-grade metal trio Unlocking the Truth was impressive, let your faith in the future of metal music be restored with this video (via...

Canadian musicians to fight truly pathetic royalty rates for their streaming music royalties. Canadian artists are going to court to overturn a new royalties schedule that pays them only one hundredth of a penny every time one of their songs is streamed online... After...

 Seether 'guitarist and singer' Shaun Morgan admits that the lead guitar spot in the multi-platinum band has been a bit of a bouncing ball. Since 1999, the group has gone through three lead axemen, with the most recent, Troy McLawhorn, departing in 2011. "What drummers...

by Tanya Lewis of Live Science.com How do great guitarists bend a string like Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix? One scientist sought to figure out how legendary performers make great music. "Very good guitarists will manipulate the strings to make the instrument sing," David...

Courtsey of Times Colonist.com It’s a long way to the top if you want to rock ’n’ roll. It takes even longer if you hope to make a reasonable living once you’re there. That is where Canadian author Aaron Bethune and his book, Musicpreneur: The Creative Approach to Making...

YouTuber; Uniformedia has complied a hilarious six-minute video called “Ultimate Guitar Fails Compilation 2014.” As its title suggests, it’s a compilation of a mess of “guitar fails” — those horrible things that happen when you’re trying to look so cool on stage. Like when...

Universal Music Group, the biggest recording conglomerate in the world and home to artists like Celine Dion, Eminem and Lady Gaga, has announced the formation of a brand new record label entitled Awesomeness Music, which will exclusively mine YouTube channels in hopes of...

“He told me, ‘You’re gonna get paid, you’re gonna see the world, and you’re gonna get stitches!’” Strauss said.  “I just try to stay out of the way when the guillotine comes out. If you’re not careful when Alice Cooper comes out swinging a sword, you’re gonna get...

Presented by D’Addario and Rolling Stone Young Guns, Guitar Power is a new series hosted by Matt Sweeney.  In each episode, Matt will sit and chat with an up-and-coming guitarist to discuss their influences, technique, gear, and approach. In Episode 1 Matt chats with...