Hendrix’s Voodoo Child Voted Greatest Guitar Riff

November 27th, 2009 more images more imagesLONDON - Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has been named 'The Best Guitar Riff Of All Time' in an online music poll. Late guitar guru Hendrix, who topped the singles chart with the track in 1970, triumphed in a poll of musicians.

October 28th, 2009 Actress ANNA FRIEL has a flair for music - she learned how to play the guitar in just five weeks. The former Pushing Daisies star is currently impressing theatregoers in London's West End with her turn as Holly Golightly in the stage version of Audrey Hepburn's 1961 classic Breakfast At Tiffany's.

October 19th, 2009 TAYLOR SWIFT has landed another major accolade - her own signature guitar. The country sensation has joined Leo Kottke, Doyle Dykes and Dan Crary among the artists who have a signature model built by Taylor Guitars.

October 5th, 2009 Voodoo Experience returns to New OrleansNEW ORLEANS — The Voodoo Experience alternative music festival returns to New Orleans for the three-day Halloween weekend with a diverse lineup that includes Eminem, Kiss, Jane's Addiction and Widespread Panic. The event runs Oct.

September 29th, 2009 ERIN BROCKOVICH has been voted the greatest movie heroine of all time. The single mum lawyer, played by Julia Roberts in the 2000 drama based on a real-life story, fights to gain compensation for victims of contaminated drinking water - and Brockovich has come out as moviegoers' favourite fighting woman.

September 20th, 2009 Pop star FERGIE has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over allegations she stole her song VOODOO DOLL from a track recorded by little-known reggae group GROUNDATION. The singer and her Black Eyed Peas bandmate will.i.am, who produced and co-wrote the 2006 tune, are being sued by record bosses at Grounded Music.

September 15th, 2009 Music Review: Living Colour cranks music blenderLiving Colour, "The Chair in the Doorway" (Megaforce) Living Colour chose a location near Prague to record its first studio album in five years, yet decided against including any Czech folk or Dvorak covers on "The Chair in the Doorway." That's a surprise, because as hard-rock bands go, Living Colour has always displayed an unusual ability to mix many influences. The musical blender is at work again on "Doorway," an album that rivals the NYC quartet's seminal early work two decades ago.

September 10th, 2009 Barbara Mandrell honored for steel guitar playingNASHVILLE, Tenn. — Barbara Mandrell has become the first woman to be inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame.

September 6th, 2009 LENNY KRAVITZ will celebrate the 20th anniversary of his breakthrough album LET LOVE RULE by closing the Voodoo Experience festival in New Orleans, Louisiana on 1 November (09). He'll join an eclectic mix of acts on the bill for the Halloween weekend three-day event - Jane's Addiction, Kiss and Widespread Panic will also be part of the festival.

August 14th, 2009 LONDON - Les Paul, the man who introduced solid body electric guitars to the world, has passed away. He was 94. Gibson, the firm that sold his guitars, has revealed that the influential figure died of pneumonia.

August 11th, 2009 LONDON - Guns N' Roses anthem 'Sweet Child O' Mine' has been named the 'Greatest Guitar Riff' in a new poll. Eric Clapton's '71 hit 'Layla' came second in the poll of 5,000 music lovers.

June 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Fans of King of Pop Michael Jackson have voted 'Thriller' his best ever track in a poll after his sudden death. The 50-year-old singer died at his home in Los Angeles last week on Thursday.

June 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - 'High School Musical' star Vanessa Hudgens has revealed that she injured her fingers while trying to learn to play the guitar for her new movie 'Bandslam'. Hudgens, 20, said that with her fingers being so small, she ended up bandaging them after each guitar lesson.

June 23rd, 2009 Cheap Trick finds fountain of youth on 'Latest' CDCheap Trick "The Latest" (self-released) Maybe it's Red Bull, or maybe they just took a dip in that pool from the movie "Cocoon," but Cheap Trick has got its youthful energy and exuberance back again. That's no small feat for the Rockford rockers, whose biggest success came while Jimmy Carter was in office, and who haven't hit it this hard since 1982's "One On One" album.

June 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - 'Led Zeppelin' rocker Jimmy Page just does not know what to do with his collection of guitars. He admits that he has so many guitars that his collection of instruments has grown out of control.