The best guitar ... the song “Breaking the Law” while he and his fellow Judas Priest musicians were staying at Tittenhurst Park in Staffordshire and working on their album British Steel.

Formed in Palo Alto, California in 1965, the Grateful Dead are remembered for a great many things: for their counter-cultural ...

Kerry King is one of the music world’s most iconic metal shredders, having famously riffed evil with Slayer while also having gone super sinister last year on his From Hell I Rise solo LP. But guitar ...

Previously, I touched on the worst Christmas songs ever written, so why not try my hand at the best? The earworms ... jam of a tune with that catchy guitar riff and the brass in the instrumental ...

Last week, we unveiled our 100 Best Albums of 2024 list ... In 2023, Paste did a year-end song ranking of 100 for the first time in the magazine’s 20-year existence. We’re keeping up with ...

Elton composed bespoke music with killer hooks and elegant plumage, crafting songs that fit him to a T, delivering them with falsetto flourishes and barrelhouse piano runs. On top of it all ...

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2024 was a historic year for music, with Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” tying Lil Nas X’s record for longest-running Billboard Hot 100 No. 1. Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” put the ...

The top country songs of 2024 prove that country music — especially traditional country music — is in very good hands. A full 25 percent of the Top 40 songs from this year are by artists who ...

Wilson met the drummer for the band, and they offered him a gig as their steel guitar player. “At 18, things really started happening for me,” Wilson said. He learned the songs Josh Ward ...

If ever a band proved you can play rock’n’roll and retain your integrity, that band was R.E.M. as the best R.E.M. songs prove. Listen to R.E.M’s best songs on Apple Music and Spotify.

What's the best metal song of each year since 1970? We've got the answer and the runner-up from those years as well! During metal's first decade, which was sparsely populated as the lines between ...