Latest articles by Richard Bienstock
The story of Skid Row’s classic hair metal anthem Youth Gone Wild
Heaven & Hell was Black Sabbath’s classic Mob Rules line-up in all but name
Poison topped the US charts in late 1988 with a power ballad that singer Bret Michaels poured his broken heart into
The story of Skid Row’s classic hair metal anthem Youth Gone Wild
How Pearl Jam’s out-of-control shows on the 1992 Lollapolozza tour sparked crowd frenzies verging on riots
Even talked soccer with Ritchie Blackmore as he lies on a table in a black leather trench coat, looking like Burt Reynolds? Shred king Yngwie Malmsteen has
Slash released an album of blues and soul standards that no one was expecting, then took the show on the road to support community causes
Celebrating the pioneering, the spectacular, the unexpected and the unrepeatable
Eddie Van Halen was a game-changing guitar player, but it was his band's exuberant songs that gave his genius the power to soar - and here are 50 of the best
The book Nothin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion tells the epic story of hair metal, including the rise of Stryper and their controversial yellow and black attack
Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready looks back at the making and the aftermath of their game-changing debut album Ten
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It’s taken them 15 years and a tragic death, but longtime Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers “co-captain” and current Fleetwood Mac guitarist Mike Campbell’s side-project The Dirty Knobs have finally released their debut album
One is a former teenage prodigy, the other is in Jane’s addiction. We sit down with guitarists Eric Gales and Dave Navarro, “two junkies of the worst kind”
Dokken and Lynch Mob string-bender George Lynch answers the questions no guitarist wants to answer...
