Music meant everything to Brian Pastoria. Whether he was sitting atop his drum kit laying the backbeat for Adrenalin or producing music for other talents at Harmonie Park Studios in Detroit, the ...

When it comes to rock and roll, few things are as omnipresent as a drum kit. Sure, there is often an electric guitar, lead singer, bass and even keys. Sometimes, too, if you’re Bruce Springsteen, ...

Incendiary sounds shooting like fireworks off the strings of an electric guitar have defined pop music around the world for 70 years. Credit Adolph Rickenbacker (1887-1976) for this world-wide wonder ...

The exhibition features instruments played by the likes of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Prince and Patti Smith, but the electric guitar is the star of this show. Don Felder playing the white double-neck ...

Photo of Sister Rosetta Tharpe by Terry Cryer, collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, gift of Gayle Wald As a guitarist, Tharpe defied gender roles ...