Prior to joining Metallica in 1983, Hammett played in Bay Area legends Exodus and was one of the band's founding members, starting up the group back in '79. After two years, he started taking lessons ...

Last year, Joe Satriani assembled the original G3 trio and hit the road with Steve Vai and Eric Johnson for what turned out to be one of 2024’s most notable guitar tours. The tour saw the three ...

The following is a lightly edited transcript of an interview between guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani and Newsweek Radio's Jesse Edwards. You can listen to the full, unedited conversation here: Jesse: ...

In 1987, when indie label Relativity Records released rock virtuoso Joe Satriani's second full-length album, Surfing With the Alien, electric-guitar-instrumental history was made. "I was completely ...

The cocksure lead singer, as Joe Satriani reminds us, is a relatively new invention. “It’s just the medium today,” sighs the guitar ace. “I mean, for thousands of years, it was more instrumental. We ...

Remember the band Squares from the ’80s? No? Well, don’t feel too bad – neither does anyone else. The group never released an album. “We were the hardest-working, least successful band of the early ...

When guitarist Joe Satriani called his band together to begin recording his latest album, he knew what he wanted the other musicians to do. "I told them, 'What I'm going to ask you to create on this ...

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of his solo debut album, 1986’s aptly titled “Not of This Earth,” enduring rock guitar hero Joe Satriani launches a 45-city North American concert trek tonight that ...

A blast of guitar power chord and a room-shaking drum beat assured those at the Fisher Theatre on Tuesday night, April 16, that they were not there for…oh, “Mama Mia.” Instead the usual home of ...

When Joe Satriani recorded his self-titled debut EP, he had two aspirations. One was to make the “weirdest record ever.” The other was “to do things on my guitar that nobody else has done before.” ...

Following the release of their new song, "The Sea of Emotion, Pt. 1," guitar legends Steve Vai and Joe Satriani joined Chuck Armstrong on Loudwire Nights to celebrate their first official recording ...