Former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke is joining Alice Cooper’s touring band on the shock rocker’s winter US tour. Clarke is stepping in for Orianthi, who had been set to fill in for Nita ...

Steuart Smith has announced his retirement as the Eagles’ lead guitarist after being diagnosed with Parkinsonism. Smith, 72, served as the band’s touring co-lead guitarist for 24 years ...

Korn’s Head is back in the Ibanez fold and has a new 7-string model, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Joe Satriani, Lari Basilio, Josh Smith, George Benson and, of course, his bandmate ...

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John Sykes, a hard-rock guitarist and singer who played with Thin Lizzy before joining Whitesnake for its smash 1987 album and later forming Blue Murder, has died of cancer. He was 65. The news ...

I’ve played guitar as a hobby since I was in junior high. While the instrument hasn’t changed, the tools I use to make it possible have — sort of. In addition to the built-in GarageBand app ...

Picture: Pete Cronin/Redferns Sykes began his music career with the band The Tygers of Pan Tang ... He was an amazing guitarist and together with Tony Franklin on bass we had a great rock trio.” ...

Garth Hudson, the stoic multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of the Canadian roots-rock group the Band, died Tuesday at a nursing facility in his adopted hometown of Woodstock, N.Y. He was 87.

Garth Hudson has died aged 87 (Picture: Michael Putland/Getty Images) Garth Hudson, the last surviving member of the highly influential and experimental music group The Band, has died aged 87.

More importantly, his father was a talented musician; in addition to playing violin, he taught himself to play guitar, ukulele, and banjo, among other instruments. He even made violins himself, a ...