Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The latest batch of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees has plenty of chart-topping household names, including Kiss, Nirvana and ...

In an effort to help Link Wary get elected into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach has just released the guitar pioneer's never-before-heard track "Son of Rumble" via his ...

When Link Wray recorded "Rumble" in early 1958, most rock-and-roll guitarists were doing everything they could to avoid distortion. Wray did the opposite, unabashedly leaning into it and, in the ...

Link Wray, 76, an early rock guitarist best known for his menacing sound on songs such as "Rumble" and "Jack the Ripper" and who boasted that his music "has always represented something screaming, ...

Back in 1958, Link Wray and the Raymen's "Rumble" introduced the power chord, fuzztone and the notion of electric guitar as a dangerous weapon. The single became both a cornerstone of modern rock ...

Dan Auerbach: 'There Would Be None of Us Without Link Wray' Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach explains why it's so important to elect Link Wray into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Link Wray, whose ...

Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin paid homage to guitarist Link Wray and inducted him posthumously into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by performing his 1958 hit “Rumble” during the induction ceremony.

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A sequel to Link Wray‘s rock classic “Rumble,” dubbed “Son of Rumble,” has been unearthed, with Black Keys singer Dan Auerbach‘s Easy Eye Sound label set to release the track in April. The ...

After Link Wray failed to make it in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014, last week the rockabilly legend was again nominated for induction. And this year his daughter says she likes his chances.

Guitarist Link Wray, who was said to have invented the power chord, the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarists, has died in Copenhagen. By Billboard Staff Guitarist Link Wray, who was said to ...

Link Wray, the electric guitar innovator who is often credited as the father of the power chord, died earlier this month at his home in Copenhagen, apparently of natural causes. He was seventy-six. He ...