They may be two of the most influential notes in funk-rock history: the soaring, plaintive start to guitarist Eddie Hazel's legendary solo in Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain." The song, an audacious, ...

Music is colorless. But really, where would guitar playing be without the contributions of Black musicians? In the ’60s and ’70s, longhaired skinny white dudes built what’s now known as classic-rock ...

Black metal has cursed the music world with some of the most bone-chilling, brutal, and even beautiful guitar work. Today, we undertake the perilous task of honoring the genre’s greatest axemen!