From the birth of the LP to the records that still move stadiums, here is our editors' panel ranking of the 50 most essential rock albums ever pressed to vinyl.
From Jimi Hendrix's explosive fuzz tones to Eddie Van Halen's groundbreaking two-handed tapping, we rank the ultimate guitar virtuosos.
The songs that get 70,000 strangers singing in unison — ranked by pure fist-pumping power.
A deep dive into the writing, recording, and mythology of the most-played rock song in radio history.
The Aussie hard rock giants extend the Power Up run with a fresh string of stadium shows across the US and Canada.
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High-octane pick attacks, driving grooves, and raw, distorted bass power.
Punk, ska, and emo reunite under one tent as the traveling festival fires up the summer circuit.
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Thirty-five years after Nevermind, the Emerald City's underground is louder than ever.
A decade-by-decade countdown of the bedroom records that became festival headliners.
Complex time signatures, mind-expanding Mellotrons, and conceptual journeys through space and time.
How a 20-minute sci-fi suite rescued Rush from being dropped and changed prog rock forever.
A history of the dropped tunings, tritone riffs, and tube distortion that built metal.
Musicians are ditching laptop presets for warm tube saturation and hand-wired fuzz boxes.
The bends, the sustain, the soul — the solos every guitarist tries to cop.
Sun-drenched skank guitars, booming dub bass, and peaceful vibrations united the coastline.
From SoCal mainstays to the new wave keeping the skank rhythm alive on the beach circuit.
How a half-century of Latin rock from Carlos Santana forward shaped today's cross-genre scene.
Before the copper crash, Zambia had a thriving psychedelic rock scene. Here's the history.
From X Japan to the modern visual kei and kawaii metal wave — where to start.
The doobie-best, west-coast soft rock records that defined a sound and a whole aesthetic.
The lighter-waving, slow-build, explode-into-the-chorus anthems that defined arena rock.
Sweep picking, two-hand tapping, and mach-speed arpeggios — the players who redefined technique.
From 'Comfortably Numb' to 'Bohemian Rhapsody' — the solos that defined rock guitar.
A history of how faith-based rock grew from a niche into a stadium-filling genre of its own.