Blending music styles has become so common that partitioning songs into specific genres almost seems pointless. But the pop artists below released iconic hits by radically altering their usual sound ...

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Led Zeppelin engineered some of the catchiest guitar riffs ever.

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The Rolling Stones’ immortal "Satisfaction" has those lyrics of frustration and need, but it's the guitar riff's opening equivalent of a flame-thrower that scorches a path for them on the ground.

Fifty-two years ago, a 22-year-old Carlos Santana took his talents to the legendary Woodstock concert and blew the world's mind. On Wednesday night, the now-74-year-old guitarist and bandleader ...

The first decade of the 2000s is still pretty fresh in everyone's minds as we were bombarded by a wealth of different stylings in heavy metal. Nu-metal and alternative metal dominated the earlier part ...