What are Steve Vai's five favorite albums? The guitar great was recently a guest on AXS' Vinyl Obsession podcast where he was tasked with visiting a Los Angeles record store and picking out his five ...

Steve Vai made his debut 25 years ago as Frank Zappa’s “stunt guitarist,” after playing with Joe Satriani in high school and attending the Berklee School of Music. He has been praised as one of the ...

Steve Vai is planning a return to his hard-rocking '80s and early-'90s roots with the release of a "straight-ahead rock" album that he original recorded around 1991. The guitarist told Al.com that ...

The post Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, and Steve Vai Announce G3 Reunion Live Album, Unveil Cover of Cream’s “Crossroads”: Stream appeared first on Consequence. The live album was captured during the ...

A new Mike Keneally album is always a thing of humming excitement and intrigue. And pending contradictions eloquently resolved. Forever searching along and within nooks and crannies of the soniverse ...

Steve Vai will release his shelved "straight-ahead rock album" from 1991, titled Vai / Gash, on Jan. 27. The eight-song album is available to preorder and pre-save now in multiple formats, including ...

With guitar great Steve Vai recently announcing a 54-date 2022 tour, you had to figure new music was coming. And now we've got it in the form of a fusion-funk track called "Little Pretty" that lets ...

Guitarist/composer Steve Vai helped lead the late 80s instrumental metal, "shred" guitar wave with his lead guitar work in several metal bands and his second solo album Passion and Warfare (1990).

It’s always difficult to see what’s behind a mountain, and even the things in front of it tend to get overlooked because of the massive eye-drawing majesty of the monument itself. Whitesnake’s massive ...

In 1995, Ozzy Osbourne and Steve Vai were tasked with collaborating on a song for Osbourne’s seventh album Ozzmosis. The duo ended up writing an entire album together. “I’m sitting on a whole Ozzy ...

Steve Vai released “Inviolate,” his first studio album in five and a half years, during January. And he had every intention to tour in support of it during the spring. But those plans went awry when ...

Happy Birthday to one of the rock world’s most virtuosic guitarist, Steve Vai, who celebrates 65 spins around the sun today (June 6). At age 12, Vai took guitar lessons from fellow New York native Joe ...