The best rock ballads of all time are also some of the best ballads period, from "Bridge Over Troubled Water" to "Dust in the ...

Let’s be real. This wouldn’t be a list of incredible instrumental rock music moments without mentioning the 1976 song “Eruption” by Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen was the OG guitar hero in many respects, ...

The Rolling Stones are known for plenty of incredible songs, but nothing quite beats the instrumental introduction to the 1969 hit song “Gimme Shelter”. It’s one of the most instantly recognizable ...

It's fun to mock the barrage of '80s rock ballads that came out of the rock and hair metal scene that decade, but as much as we'd like to pretend that upbeat anthems brought everyone out to the big ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...