In this latest Loud List, we count down our picks for the 20 Greatest Metal Riffs of All Time. Timelessness may be the most important aspect of an iconic riff. No matter how many decades pass, metal's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Ramones’ classic makes it onto the list – but which is it? - Roberta Bayley/Redferns We’re going to fall out about this, ...

Many guitar riffs are so good that the lyrics don’t matter. They are powerful enough to move listeners at a primal level, and ...

Our next Greatest Riffs Loud List is focused on the once-in-a-generation political powerhouse Rage Against the Machine. Though the band only released three original full-length albums, this was still ...

Cream‘s “Sunshine of Your Love” features not only one of the greatest guitar riffs of the ’60s, but one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time. It’s a rite of passage for any burgeoning guitar ...

The '80s were a golden age for guitar-driven rock and roll. Coming strong off the hard rock scene of the '70s and bolstered by the emergence of MTV, riff rock has never been as popular as it was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dave Mustaine playing guitar onstage in 1995 Frankly, picking the best riffs from a catalogue of such distinction is a mug’s game ...

Tony Iommi recalled how he let the rest of Black Sabbath choose which of his riffs to work into songs. The guitarist also explained why he related more to “Iron Man” than to “Paranoid,” even though ...

"There's something about a naive apprehension of art that makes it that much nobler to me," Rick Moody observes in "Two Weeks at Music Camp," one of 13 essays collected in On Celestial Music. He's at ...

Keith Richards says hooks are more important than flights of fancy. He’s right – and yet... Neil McCormick has been chief music critic for the Telegraph since 1995. His interviews have ranged from ...