The foundation of most songs begins with an acoustic guitar, so it’s only natural that many bands release acoustic renditions at some point. These toned down versions allow a band to show off their ...

We love to keep it heavy with face-melting solos and excruciating screams. But sometimes it’s important to unplug the amps and let the emotions pour out from the soul—even if you’re too “metal” for ...

Neil Young is too prolific for one best-songs list, so we split it into two, as the man himself would probably do it live. There's this set of unplugged, acoustic numbers, and another of plugged-in ...

Bared of his pearly king artifice, White’s new pose as a normal human being finds him every bit the painstaking craftsman in this classy compilation The cover of Jack White’s first ever ...

Sometimes, a solid rock song just needs to have its production stripped down and its instrumentation broken down into basic parts to really shine. Plenty of rock stars have performed “unplugged” ...

Among the many incredible renditions on Alice In Chains’ Unplugged album, Would? Is especially haunting. There’s something to the track’s dark, jazzy rhythms and the Jerry Cantrell/Layne Staley vocal ...

Led Zeppelin started as a psychedelic blues band in the last 1960s. It didn’t take long for them to prove they had a soft side with their more delicate work in the folk and country genres. They never ...

The first release by new label Near Mint (distributed by Fontana) will be a compilation of acoustic guitar music dubbed "Imaginational Anthem." By Billboard Staff The first release by new label Near ...

Just 24 hours before Neil Young jammed with the Band at “The Last Waltz” in San Francisco, he was in Atlanta to play two shows in a single evening at the Fox Theater. It was November 24th, 1976, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jack White was one of the special guests on this past week's season premiere of Later... With Jools Holland, where he promoted his ...