The Rock Island Public Library is working on clean up efforts after a water line broke at their Watts-Midtown Branch, Tuesday ...

Update: The library announced Thursday the Watts-Midtown branch would reopen on Friday, Feb. 21. The location will be open ...

The Pantera icon loved digging into his Riffer Madness “Feedback Sack” and answering readers’ questions. Here he offers gear ...

The Rock Island Public Library is working on clean up efforts after a water line broke at their Watts-Midtown Branch, Tuesday.

But what is known — and what railroad devotees soon revealed online — is the building was actually an old train depot that serviced Prairie Home south of Waverly on the Chicago Rock Island ...

Rock music is the electric guitar’s happy place – that we all know. But there’s a way to go wild on the instrument that’s different to the scorched-earth solos of Jimi Hendrix or Jimmy Page.

So while it’s not exactly fair to judge both guitarists on one of their solos, ‘Comfortably Numb’ does beat out ‘Stairway to Heaven’ not only in terms of stylistic choices but also what it meant for ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — Update Tuesday, Jan. 28: Rock Island County Coroner Brian Gustafson has identified the 16-year-old killed in a Sunday night shooting in Rock Island. The victim has been ...

Luthiers make guitar art. And one of the world’s finest luthiers was East Northport’s Joseph Jesselli. “A guy on Long Island named Joseph Jesselli made two or three guitars for me last year ...

A guitar owned by late rockstar Jeff Beck recently sold for more than $1 million at auction. Beck’s 1954 “Oxblood” Gibson Les Paul sold for £1,068,500 (approximately $1,317,111), according ...

When it comes to rotten luck in the temple, Rock Carlson’s turn takes the cake on Deal or No Deal Island. In Tuesday night’s episode, the corrections officer (who cosplayed as a landscaper ...

After nearly 40 years downtown, one of Chicago’s longtime tourist destinations, Hard Rock Cafe, is closing permanently in March, marking the end of an era for one of the chain’s oldest locations.