Few guitars are quite as monstrous as Steve Vai’s triple-neck Hydra, but its tamer is considering retiring it. The Ibanez ...

In the spring of 1978, I watched a talent show at my high school in Carle Place, a tiny town in central Long Island, N.Y. One contestant was an 18-year-old guitar phenom and protégé of our community’s ...

Watching my son learn guitar helped me understand Steve Vai's lessons on music, creativity and growth.

My youngest son is 10 years old now, and since November, he’s been taking guitar lessons. With a love of Metallica in his heart and a Squier Strat over his shoulder, I bring him to Blue Sky Studios in ...

When Joe Satriani was giving Steve Vai guitar lessons while they were teenagers growing up in Long Island, they’d sit back-to-back in his back yard, playing together. Now, all these years later, ...

Legendary guitarist, songwriter and three-time Grammy winner Steve Vai produced, engineered and recorded all his solo albums in the Harmony Hut studio he set up in this Midcentury Modern house he has ...

The Sicilian guitar maestro wrote the breathtaking Solar Wind to be the most Steve Vai song he could possibly write – and for the man himself to guest on ...

Composer Bear McCreary is continuing his epic metal saga with the aid of an all-star cast ...

TODAY: The Mets have sent Ibáñez outright to Triple-A Syracuse, according to his transactions tracker at MLB.com. That indicates that Ibáñez cleared waivers after being designated for assignment and ...

Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., announced Friday that he won’t be running for re-election this fall after a redistricting push in Tennessee carved up his Memphis-based district. Subscribe to read this ...

Rep. Steve Cohen (Tenn.), a liberal Democrat in his 20th year on Capitol Hill, announced Friday that he will retire at the end of the term, becoming the earliest casualty of the Republicans’ ...