The Who guitarist Pete Townshend had strong feelings about one 1980s glam metal band in particular (but he loves R.E.M.).

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

Nita Strauss and Kiko Loureiro are among the players showing their support for the potentially fiery new guitar partnership ...

Gilbert says shred can sometimes be the easy way to give his audience what they want, but their expectations only make him ...

The humans who move to Mars might not remain "human" for very long. Evolution is a powerful force, transcending planetary boundaries. As Rice University biologist Scott Solomon points out in his ...

The machines aren’t just coming for your jobs. Now, they want your bodies as well. That’s at least the hope of Alexander Liteplo, a software engineer and founder of RentAHuman.ai, a platform for AI ...

Based on the weekend’s viral hype around AI agents, you’d be forgiven for thinking we’re inching closer to a Cyberpunk future once reserved for sci-fi books and video games. And while that trajectory ...

There aren’t enough guitar solos anymore. I mean, there are guitar solos still happening—in the metalspheres of the world, most explicitly—but rock and roll’s got a serious solo deficiency going on.

The first guitar that mattered to me was not mine. It was my dad’s: a regular‑guy acoustic in the corner of the office/playroom, strings a little dead, wood a little scuffed, transformed into a magic ...

Modular electric guitars are the future of the iconic instrument We're coming up on the 100th anniversary of the electric guitar, and it's been fascinating to hear how this simple instrument has ...

People could soon live to 150 years as breakthroughs in biological clocks and rejuvenation research stretch human lifespans to new highs, one expert predicted. Geneticist Steve Horvath told Time that ...

Humans&, a startup with a philosophy that AI should empower people rather than replace them, has raised $480 million in seed funding at a $4.48 billion valuation, reports The New York Times. Investors ...