Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine" tops Ranker's list of the best rock songs of the 1980s, voted on by thousands of fans. The song was almost never made — Slash co ...

Pedal Steel Noah’s rise in Austin’s music scene runs on family. At SXSW 2026, brothers Noah and Nate Faulkner performed at ...

That mindset led her to invest in an Ernie Ball VP JR volume pedal so her hands could focus on playing rather than manipulating the guitar itself. Then she realized its usefulness ...

Since releasing 'Altar of Harmony,' his 2020 debut on Jack White's Third Man Records, Luke Schneider has been redefining the role of the pedal steel guitar and showing audiences how dynamic the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Steel guitarist Pete Finney, who toured with Patty Loveless for more than 20 years and recorded with myriad ...

Fiddles, banjos, and guitars have long been commonplace in country music. However, a pedal steel guitar brings a whole new layer of emotional depth to your favorite country song. First used in ...

Stephen Inglis and Barry Sless perform Hawaiian songs, originals and favorites by the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan. Courtesy photo Grammy-nominated Hawaiian slack key guitarist Stephen Inglis and ...

Here are the 11 best prog metal songs of 2025! It’s truly been difficult to keep track of all the outstanding progressive metal songs released this year by both top-tier acts and artists who’re either ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

Below the surface of the mainstream, music had a wonderful year—making the task of whittling down 2025’s best albums to a top-10 list maddeningly difficult—though you’d hardly know it from looking at ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Pop music was not at all safe this year from the encroachments of an AI industry determined to slop-ify everything ...

That's a small detail, but it's indicative of the lived-in quality of this gorgeous song about the cycles we can't seem to break. Across four unhurried minutes of pedal steel, acoustic guitar, and ...