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- The 3 Eric Clapton solos Eddie Van Halen said were his favorites - Rock and Roll Garage
- “He said, ‘I’ll come. I was wondering what I’d do tomorrow.’” How George Harrison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne spontaneously created the 1980s’ biggest supergroup - GuitarPlayer.com
- “He locked us in the kitchen with some food and a couple of guitars. We couldn’t come out until we’d written a song.” Keith Richards on forcing out his and Mick Jagger’s first hit - GuitarPlayer.com
- “This thing is a RIPPER. No B.S. One channel. One tube-buffered effects loop”: Butch Walker and Divided by 13 team up for signature head with switchable EL84 and 6L6 power sections - Guitar World
- “A lot of people say we’re their favorite running music”: Josh Menashe of LA post-punk freakazoids Frankie and the Witch Fingers has some advice on riff writing – just up your step count and let them come to you - Guitar World
- “He said, ‘I have to play on this. Give me a track’”: How three session-guitar aces and an inspired intervention from a “wunderkind” Steve Lukather saved a ‘70s soft-rock classic - Guitar World
- Córdoba’s new Stage Artist solidbody nylon electrics are built for the gigging guitarist – and they’re serious lookers - Guitar.com
- Newton Faulkner heading to Frome – and you can take your guitar! - somersetleveller.co.uk
- Flutist Lori Bell, guitarist Ron Satterfield to present jazz concert in Rancho Bernardo - sandiegouniontribune.com
- One man’s journey from aerospace to inner space creates one of the world’s finest guitars - event-newsenterprise.com
- “With this breakthrough, it’s easier than ever to practice, improve, and enjoy playing music”: JBL unveils the BandBox, an amp and speaker with AI vocal and instrument separation technology – and it could change the way guitarists practice - Guitar World
- Collaboration opens new sonic horizons for jazz guitarist Jocelyn Gould - createastir.ca
- Strandberg and Jamstik partner on a headless electric guitar with MIDI functionality - Guitar.com
- “I know why he hired me.” Behind John Lennon's unusual decision to enlist David Bowie‘s go-to guitarist for his best-selling solo album - GuitarPlayer.com
- Hear former MEGADETH guitarist MARTY FRIEDMAN shred on WORM's new song - Revolver Magazine
- Warren Haynes: Gov’t Mule, the Allman Brothers Band, and Volume Knob Secrets - Premier Guitar
- “Give the average guitar player the chance to own my live rig. My tone. The tone worth $100,000s”: Billy Corgan and Laney Amplification unveil the ultimate Smashing Pumpkins amp-in-a-box pedal - MusicRadar
- Casio Introduces Dimension Shifter Guitar Strap Controller - Premier Guitar
- “I just couldn’t believe I was gonna be on a George Harrison record. He’d been listening to what the T-Birds had been doing”: Jimmie Vaughan on longevity, Strats and recording the Porky’s Revenge soundtrack – with a Beatle - Guitar World
- “If you got the Ibanez catalog that year, it was Reb Beach, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani on the first three pages. They said, ‘Whatever shape you want’”: Reb Beach on the story of his ’90s Ibanez signature guitar – and the mystery behind its sequel - Guitar World
- “Give the average guitar player the chance to own my live rig. The tone worth $100,000s”: Billy Corgan has shrunk his Smashing Pumpkins rig into a Laney pedal amp – and he tested it in front of 60,000 My Chemical Romance fans - Guitar World
- American Guitarist and Composer Ralph Towner has Died, Aged 85 - The Violin Channel
- Jimi Hendrix Once Named the Guitarist Who Inspired Him as One of the Greatest of All Time - Collider
- ”I’ll do everything I can to make this guitar sing again.” Ukrainian guitarist completely restores a Les Paul heavily damaged by a Russian drone strike - GuitarPlayer.com
- “He would always show me this really horrible Stratocaster that had nine pickups on it”: The Cribs' Ryan Jarman explains why a guitar swap with Johnny Marr didn't work out - Guitar World
- “Dave called me after he got out of rehab. He said, ‘I quit Megadeth.’” David Ellefson on Dave Mustaine and what really happened when the guitarist forced him out of the thrash metal legends - GuitarPlayer.com
- Weary Ramblers wins at International Blues Challenge - greenecountynewsonline.com
- “Whether tilting the neck to swell a delay, raising the body for a filter sweep, or leaning back to unleash distortion, it opens a new world of expressive, intuitive stage performance”: Is Casio’s Dimension Shift a game-changer for your pedalboard? - MusicRadar
- Ralph Towner, influential guitarist and founding member of the group Oregon, dies at 85 - opb.org
- “Furious? That’s putting it mildly. I was counting how many people I was going to have to kill”: Randy Holden’s 1970 album pioneered doom metal. But he was never told it had been released - Guitar World
- “This was 1968, right at the height of the Vietnam War.” John Fogerty on the letter that inspired him to write his greatest hit song - GuitarPlayer.com
- Who's No. 1? Let the Debate Begin! - Premier Guitar
- NAMM 2026 Live: The latest guitar launches and news from the biggest music gear event on the planet - Guitar.com
- “Doing overdubs on that song was one of the toughest sessions for me.” Steely Dan’s key guitarist on what happened behind his hit tracks with Walter Becker and Donald Fagen - GuitarPlayer.com
- “They played a lot of fast drop D, but they also played a lot of harmony power chords. You can hear a lot of that in our early music”: Kevin Jonas on his love for the Dove, and why you’ll almost always find the Jonas Brothers in DADGAD - Guitar World
- “They are still being killed for years, so that’s the reason we’re missing out on it.” Brian May on the surprising reason Queen refuse to play one of summers’ most celebrated music festivals - GuitarPlayer.com
- “Giving guitarists an entirely new way to interact with their music”: Casio’s strap-mounted Dimension Shifter lets players control effect parameters with their movements - Guitar World
- Biffy Clyro touring guitarist says he “can't think of anything more boring” than playing acoustic guitar - Guitar.com
- Carlos Santana thinks guitarists who play fast are no better than gym bros flexing their muscles: “Big deal, so what?” - Guitar.com
- Bob Weir, Guitarist and Founding Member of The Grateful Dead, Dies at 78 - The New York Times
- “He’s played with everybody, so he really saved us and rescued us tonight”: Dave Grohl thanks Jason Falkner for “rescuing” the Foo Fighters as they play their first show since Pat Smear’s bizarre injury - Guitar World
- Bob Weir, guitarist and founding member of the Grateful Dead, has died at 78 - NPR
- Wolfgang Van Halen says this aspect of his father’s guitar playing is “incredibly underrated”: “Everybody looks at him as Mr. Tap and Mr. Shred, but that’s just a flavour to what he did” - Guitar.com
- SYSTEM OF A DOWN's DARON MALAKIAN: How I Ended Up Playing Guitar For METALLICA For A Couple Of Shows In 2000 - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- “He was a very moody sort of guy. We’d be traveling in a van, going to the shows, and he would sit in the corner and not talk to anybody.” Jim McCarty recalls Eric Clapton’s “quite unhappy” time with the Yardbirds - GuitarPlayer.com
- WOLFGANG VAN HALEN: 'I Think My Dad Is An Incredibly Underrated Rhythm Guitar Player And Songwriter' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- Perry Bamonte, Guitarist and Keyboardist for the Cure, Dies at 65 - The New York Times
- The Cure: Guitarist and keyboard player Perry Bamonte dies aged 65 - BBC
- “I’m just standing there strumming a chord. And the audience looks at me and goes, ‘How does he produce that noise?’” Pete Townshend on the Who's real lead guitar player - GuitarPlayer.com
- “It’s insane. He died aged 25, only guitar players remember him, and yet he was the sound of the Pretenders”: Chrissie Hynde pays tribute to the underrated guitar hero who defined the Pretenders - Guitar World
- “It started with a suggestion to come up with something Beatle-ish, like ‘Ticket to Ride.’” The guitarist behind the 1960s pop hitmakers who sold more records than the Beatles and Rolling Stones combined - GuitarPlayer.com
- “Every time I watch videos of her playing guitar, I'm just melted on the floor. I think she's one of the most genius guitar players”: Danielle Haim names her biggest guitar influences, including the player she calls “the most underrated” - MusicRadar
- "I thought to myself, ‘This guy’s not gonna be here very long’”: When Dave Mustaine first saw James Hetfield play guitar, it was bad news for Metallica's fifth member Brad Parker - Guitar.com
- Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and Shaper of Memphis Soul Music, Dies at 84 - The New York Times
- “I was packing up to leave when Dylan asked, ‘Where’s he going?’ and I wound up playing on the whole album.” The guitarist Bob Dylan insisted he had to have for his country music breakthrough - GuitarPlayer.com
- MÖTLEY CRÜE's TOMMY LEE On JOHN 5: 'He's Such A Talented Guitar Player That It Literally Just Lit All Of Us Up On Fire' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- Steve Cropper, guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T and the M.G.'s, dies - NPR
- “Suddenly, all these football players were picking up guitars. It’s not my thing anymore”: Justin Hawkins recalls being “furious” about how Nirvana shook the guitar scene overnight - Guitar.com
- MICHAEL SWEET: 'If People Only Knew How Hard I Work' On Guitar Parts For STRYPER Albums - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- Good Charlotte's Benji Madden: “If you're a guitar player, your skills go completely to waste if you're not working with a f**king great songwriter” - Guitar.com
- “These are the tracks people dream of being able to pick up and play”: New study names the most inspiring bands for aspiring guitarists – and The Beatles have been beaten to top spot - Guitar World
- AC/DC, Oasis, Bad Company and many more! Test your guitar news knowledge with Guitar Player's "Week in Music" Quiz for November 14, 2025 - GuitarPlayer.com
- “I’ve had many people hand me their guitars, and I’m like, ‘No, thank you’”: Rick Beato was offered the chance to play guitars from Peter Frampton, Larry Carlton and more – here’s why he turned them down - Guitar World
- “He said, ‘I can’t tell a thing of what you’re playing. Why don’t you just come in and play it yourself?’” Doyle Bramhall II on Eric Clapton's incredible offer that brought him the gig of a lifetime - GuitarPlayer.com
- “This was about showing respect to a man that I don’t believe thinks I respect him”: Dave Mustaine on James Hetfield and why he’s re-recorded Ride The Lightning - Guitar.com
- TOM MORELLO: 'Without ACE FREHLEY, I Don't Know Whether I Would've Ever Wanted To Play Guitar' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- EXTREME's NUNO BETTENCOURT: How ACE FREHLEY Influenced Me As A Guitar Player - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- Ace Frehley, Kiss lead guitarist and band’s co-founder, dies aged 74 - The Guardian
- “The last thing he told me during that last interview was, ‘I’m probably gonna go until the wheels come off!’” I spoke to Ace Frehley a dozen times in the last two years of his life – oft-misunderstood, he was the true embodiment of rock ’n’ roll spirit - Guitar World
- Kiss Guitarist Ace Frehley Dead at 74 - Rolling Stone
- “I hadn’t seen him in a while, and I wish I had.” Jimmy Page remembers original Yardbirds guitarist Chris Dreja, who has died at age 79 - GuitarPlayer.com
- Maggie Baugh: What to know about Keith Urban's guitar player - Fox News
- “As much as it sucked to start over, I saw Dave become a vastly better guitar player pretty quickly after Metallica”: Dave Ellefson has his say on whether Metallica did Dave Mustaine a favour by sacking him - MusicRadar
- Get more Guitar Player stories in your day with these two easy steps - GuitarPlayer.com
- Steel Guitar Player Robby Turner, Known as ‘Man of Steel,’ Dies at 63 - Billboard
- Legendary Steel Guitar Player Robby Turner Dead at 63 - Taste of Country
- “Eric's not playing on it. That’s me”: The time John Mayer received the ultimate guitar playing compliment from Paul McCartney’s session guitarist - Guitar.com
- Interview with guitarist Jennifer Batten; She plays Hood River Thursday, Aug. 26 - columbiacommunityconnection.com
- “I can tell you how to become a virtuoso very easily”: Steve Vai on how anybody can become an elite guitar player - Guitar World
- Henley air guitar player gears up for world championships - BBC
- John Fogerty says this thing is more important to musical success than being a good guitar player: "Even if your playing is kind of average, you can go far” - Guitar.com
- “I don't think Jimi Hendrix was a guitarist. Eric Clapton is excessively tedious.” Robert Fripp on his 1960s contemporaries — and the one guitarist he thought was fun - GuitarPlayer.com
- Tower of Power Bass-Guitar Player Shares His Story - independentnews.com
- “You couldn’t be in a rock band unless you looked a certain way”: Why Tim Pierce didn't join Bon Jovi – despite playing guitar on their first hit - Guitar.com
- "He was rock and roll to the roots." Dave Davies names the guitarist who defined rock in the 1970s, and picks the song that proves it - GuitarPlayer.com
- The '70s rock guitarist The Kinks' Dave Davies calls the “great and underrated guitar player of the time” - Guitar.com
- Joe Satriani struggles with being “extroverted” on stage: “I don’t think I ever feel like myself” - Guitar.com
- Video 10-year-old guitar-playing prodigy rocks on - ABC News
- “I like grabbing something that I don’t think is the ‘right’ thing and seeing how that works”: Why Alex Lifeson still reaches for the $57 Japanese guitar his parents got him - Guitar.com
- Pasquale Grasso Feels the Ferver - DownBeat
- “Dude, come on!”: Tetrarch’s Diamond Rowe claims Slipknot’s Jim Root once asked her for guitar lessons - Guitar.com
- Rick Derringer, Guitar Journeyman Behind ‘Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo,’ Dead at 77 - Rolling Stone
- MARTY FRIEDMAN Has Nothing Against 'Flashy' Guitar Playing: 'I Just Wanna Be Excited By What I Hear' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- “I’m like, ‘What the f***? My guitar, it’s completely out of tune!’ ” Samantha Fish names the one thing that can ruin every gig - GuitarPlayer.com
- Winner of Guitar Player Magazine International Competition to perform locally - timesobserver.com
- RUSH's ALEX LIFESON: 'I'm Just A Guy Who Loves Playing Guitar' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- LAMB OF GOD's MARK MORTON: 'I Have Never Completely Defined Myself As Just A Heavy Metal Guitar Player' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- “I could barely play his guitar. He had 12s on the top. It was like a G string. I was like, ‘How do you do that?’”: Huey Lewis and the News' Chris Hayes looks back on his friendship with Stevie Ray Vaughan – and the blues great's notorious guitar setup - Guitar World
- Dave Mustaine says nu-metal guitar players “didn't do any solos” because they “couldn't do any solos” - Guitar.com
- “Old-school players have beautiful technique – but they're not so innovative with the actual sound”: Steven Wilson explains why guitarists should regularly change their tone - Guitar.com
Guitar Amp News
- NAMM 2026 live: rolling news from the world's biggest music-making gear show - MusicRadar
- BluGuitar Amp X: 100% Analog Amp with Digital Controls - Gearnews.com
- "A brand new amp and speaker with AI vocal and instrument separation tech": JBL’s new BandBox makes it easier than ever to craft the perfect backing track - MusicRadar
- “Its sound kicks the ass of amps three times its size”: Slash’s latest Magnatone Lil’ Viper 8-watt combo can go toe-to-toe with the big boys - MusicRadar
- “This thing is a RIPPER. No B.S. One channel. One tube-buffered effects loop”: Butch Walker and Divided by 13 team up for signature head with switchable EL84 and 6L6 power sections - Guitar World
- Fryette Launches Pittbull Ultra-Lead II Amp And Valvulator Mini Buffer - Premier Guitar
- “It kicks the ass of amps three times its size”: Slash and Magnatone slither into the fray with the Lil’ Viper, a compact but venomous 8-watt combo amp - Guitar World
- “Our amplifier learns your cabinet’s impedance through controlled sweeps and continues to monitor it in real-time”: Synergy’s Power Amp Machine-Learning tech could be 'revolutionary' - MusicRadar
- Laney Introduces Supergrace Loudpedal Collab with Billy Corgan - Premier Guitar
- “With this breakthrough, it’s easier than ever to practice, improve, and enjoy playing music”: JBL unveils the BandBox, an amp and speaker with AI vocal and instrument separation technology – and it could change the way guitarists practice - Guitar World
- NAMM 2026: The Best New Product News & Announcements - Reverb
- ID:X Floor – Blackstar’s first “high-performance” digital floor modellers deliver the tone and feel of real amps with hands-on controls - Guitar.com
- Magnatone Introduces Four New Amps At NAMM - Premier Guitar
- Seymour Duncan unveils MortalCoil active humbucker set, a multi-voiced pairing featuring the crushing new MC1 plus classic JB and Jazz humbucker voicings – will it dethrone Fishman as metal’s state-of-the-art pickup? - MusicRadar
- “Give the average guitar player the chance to own my live rig. My tone. The tone worth $100,000s”: Billy Corgan and Laney Amplification unveil the ultimate Smashing Pumpkins amp-in-a-box pedal - MusicRadar
- “Experience the dynamic sensation of an amp moving air”: Blackstar takes on the Fender Tone Master Pro, unveiling a high-powered floor modeler series with “insane versatility” - Guitar World
- “Uncompromising tone whenever inspiration strikes”: Blackstar unveils the Beam Mini – it’s portable, desktop-friendly, and as the first guitar amp to allow players to load Neural Amp Modeller captures, it's a game-changer too - MusicRadar
- The Ultimate Travel Companion? Blackstar Drops the Ultra-Portable BEAM MINI - Gearnews.com
- “Give the average guitar player the chance to own my live rig. The tone worth $100,000s”: Billy Corgan has shrunk his Smashing Pumpkins rig into a Laney pedal amp – and he tested it in front of 60,000 My Chemical Romance fans - Guitar World
- The OR60 is the most versatile amp Orange has ever built - - Happy Mag
- “Our goal has been to define the standard for what an all-in-one digital rig can be”: Neural DSP’s game-changing Quad Cortex amp modeller just got a lot smaller – but it’s got the same sounds, the same power, and a 7” touchscreen too - MusicRadar
- “Size shouldn’t dictate what a professional rig is capable of”: Neural DSP debuts the Quad Cortex mini – putting the full QC experience into its smallest format yet - Guitar World
- Rig Rundown: Bryan Adams - Premier Guitar
- “A no-compromise amplifier solution”: Synergy teams up with Wampler and Friedman to launch its machine-learning power amp – and promises to change the game for tube modeling - Guitar World
- “A bold evolution of Valvetronix”: VOX pairs new amp modelling technology with the “authentic feel of classic tubes” in the new VT20X and VT40X - Guitar.com
- Citadel Electronics' Vector Hybrid Octave Fuzz is a super shapeable killer sounding Fuzz of that genre - Guitar Pedal X
- Meet Orange Amps’ UK-built all-valve guitar amp head: the OR60 - Mixdown Magazine
- Cort Guitars Introduces the Space G6TR Headless Electric Guitar - Premier Guitar
- SYNERGY Amps Releases the All New SYN-20IR 1x12 All-Tube 20 Watt Combo - Premier Guitar
- “The straight-up, high-voltage voice of a masterfully designed single-channel amp”: Orange rolls out the OR60 – an all-tube guitar amp head that is the “most versatile it has ever built” - Guitar World
- NAMM 2026 Live: The latest guitar launches and news from the biggest music gear event on the planet - Guitar.com
- “Making digital modeling a more viable option for those who miss the sound and feel of a real amp”: Line 6 Powercab CL 112 review - Guitar World
- VOX Introduces New Valvetronix VT20X and VT40X Amplifiers - Premier Guitar
- Orange Amps OR60 UK-Built All-Valve Guitar Amp - Premier Guitar
- VOX Introduces the VTB-1 Treble Booster Pedal - Premier Guitar
- “Simple design is its key: just the straight-up, high-voltage voice of a masterfully designed single-channel amp”: Orange Amps rolls out the OR60, a single-channel 60-watt tube powerhouse officially approved by Down/COC’s Pepper Keenan - MusicRadar
- “Reimagines the hybrid amp experience for a new generation”: Vox marries old-school amps and modelers by introducing its most advanced iterations of the Valvetronix series yet - Guitar World
- “I wanted to fix every issue I’ve ever had dialing in metal tones”: Warm Audio crafts a signature overdrive for Ryan “Fluff” Bruce – and it's being billed as the perfect tube screamer for modern metal - Guitar World
- “Designed to go hard”: Orange unveils new vintage-inspired single-channel OR60 amp head - Guitar.com
- 6 Favourite Dumble Overdrive Special Pedal Takes - Guitar Pedal X
- NAMM 2026: news, rumors, predictions - Guitar World
- “Built to carry its sonic legacy into the future of listening”: Fender becomes the latest guitar and amp firm to enter the home audio space – but can Fender Audio stand up to Marshall? - Guitar World
- The Guitar.com staff picks: this is the best new gear of 2025 - Guitar.com
- Guitar.com Deals Of The Week: pre-Christmas savings to stuff your stockings with - Guitar.com
- Strymon's new Fairfax is a cool Fuzzy Scuzzy Tube Amp style JFETs saturator with gating sag - Guitar Pedal X
- “It’s clear to see that modelers have won the battle”: Modelers outsold traditional amps and combos in 2025 – but the war between the two might not be over just yet - Guitar World
- Reverb shares its best selling gear of the year – and 2025 was the year of the Strat - Guitar.com
- The Lava Studio Amp is the world's best Practice Amp - stuffed with smart features and killer playability - Guitar Pedal X
- Peavey’s Legendary Super Festival Bass Amp is Back - Premier Guitar
- “Virtually indistinguishable from the all-tube original”: EVH’s first digital amp, the 5150III Hypersonic, delivers Eddie Van Halen’s iconic tube tones without the heft - Guitar.com
- Electro-Harmonix Introduces ABRAMS100 100-Watt Guitar Amp - Premier Guitar
- “It’s the size of a big foot pedal. I get all kinds of great sounds out of it, no matter what I plug into it”: Joe Perry used a $219 pedal amp to record most of the guitars on Aerosmith’s new EP with Yungblud - Guitar World
- Cyber Monday guitar deals 2025 LIVE: all of today's biggest savings at Sweetwater, Guitar Center, Fender, Amazon and more - Guitar World
- “The first truly great portable electric guitar amp” is on sale for Black Friday - Guitar.com
- Best headphone amps for guitar 2025: silent practice solutions - Guitar World
- VOX Introduces the Micro Superbeetle Guitar Amp - Premier Guitar
- Vox launches Micro Superbeetle guitar and audio amplifiers - Mixdown Magazine
- “People love our amps because they’re loud. That one line has cemented itself as a tagline for the company”: Marshall has launched Spinal Tap amps that go to Infinity – here’s how ‘the loudest amp ever made’ came together - Guitar World
- News - IK Multimedia throws its hat in the ring for Plugin Headphone Amps, with its TONEX PLUG - Guitar Pedal X
- Marshall partners with Spinal Tap on the “loudest amp ever made” – with knobs that go to 11 and a master volume that goes to infinity - Guitar.com
- AFI guitarist ditched tube amps because they made him feel “constrained” sonically – does he have a point? - Guitar.com
- Best guitar amps: tube, solid-state and modeling amplifiers for all levels and budgets - Guitar World
- “Not many people want to watch a band stand in front of their amp line”: Metallica guitar tech thinks ditching real amps helped the band improve spectacle of their live shows - Guitar.com
- Local Guitar Amp Designers Keep Those Vacuum Tubes Aglow - racketmn.com
- Best mini amps for guitar 2025: power up your practice with these tiny towers of tone – these are my top picks - Guitar World
- My Surprising Journey with Vintage Fender Amps - Premier Guitar
- News - Greer's Mizuki Blue replicates Tube-Amp-like Textures with 2 JFET Gain Stages - Guitar Pedal X
- PRS Guitars Announces New SE Models Plus a New Combo Amp Ahead of 2026 Updates - Premier Guitar
- “The American tube amp that powered generations of rock, surf, and pop music”: Universal Audio reimagines a classic Fender amp used by Keith Richards, The Beach Boys and beyond as a plugin – and it’s currently free to download - Guitar World
- “Making history as the first-ever amp authenticated on the blockchain”: Synyster Gates has launched what’s called a Universal Pedal Platform – and it’s nothing like your usual amp head - Guitar World
- “It seems the age of touchscreen guitar amps is advancing faster than I ever imagined”: All the new guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including the return of my favorite Fender offset - Guitar World
- We gave the Spark 2 9/10 in our review – and it's on sale now in Positive Grid's Back to School promo - Guitar.com
- “A new benchmark for authentic sound”: Line 6 has finally shared what the Helix Stadium’s potentially game-changing tones actually sound like - Guitar World
- Sophie Burrell x Boss Katana Tone Crafting Masterclass at the Roland Denmark Street Store - Guitar Pedal X
- Man buys John Lennon's old Fender guitar amp on Facebook Marketplace… for barely $4,000 - Guitar.com
- “Whenever we weren’t playing, Neil would call up and say, ‘Are you guys playing a gig next weekend? Can we borrow the amplifier?’” When Randy Bachman and Neil Young used to share guitar amps - Guitar World
- “One of the rarest and most coveted vintage amplifiers ever”: Mesa/Boogie’s hallowed Mark IIC++ was used by Metallica to shape the sound of 1980s metal – and now it’s been given a production release for the first time ever - Guitar World
- Dad who bought guitar amp on Facebook floored by previous rock star owner - manchestereveningnews.co.uk
- “It’s official. The age of touchscreen guitar amps is here”: This is all the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – and we might have a winner for the best new sub-$1k electric guitar of 2025 - Guitar World
- Mooer’s F15i is a $190 desktop modeling amp with touchscreen - Guitar World
- Blackstar Amplification Launches ID:X Series – A Cut Above - Premier Guitar
- “A bold step forward in modern amp design”: Blackstar goes up against Boss and Positive Grid with the ID:X – a next-gen modeling amp with newly developed tech that isn’t afraid of the competition - Guitar World
- My MGAT-5 Sinvertek Real Amp Abstraction of the Soldano SLO-100 has landed - and Mr Wu has once again knocked it out of the park! - Guitar Pedal X
- Best acoustic guitar amp 2025: Amplify your acoustic with a top-rated amp - MusicRadar
- Fender to launch new American Vintage, Mustang, and Tone Master amps this year – here’s everything you need to know - Guitar.com
- “Phenomenal tone at any volume”: Fender’s American Vintage ’62 Super revives a “hidden treasure” tube amp that bridged the gap between two legendary combo designs - Guitar World
- Best tube amps 2025: My top tube amps for the ultimate guitar tone - GuitarPlayer.com
- Thomann has acquired Hughes & Kettner - Guitar World
- Best Combo Amp for Every Budget: Fender, Orange, Marshall & More - Gearnews.com
- Best amp modellers 2025: High-tech tone solutions for all guitarists - MusicRadar
- Engl unleashes Fireball IR Dual Channel High Gain Distortion Preamp - with Noise Gate and Mid Boost - based on its most formidable amp - Guitar Pedal X
- Divided by 13 CCC 9/15 Review - Premier Guitar
- Carr Skylark Special Review - Premier Guitar
- “If you’re a young guitar player, that’s money well spent”: The amp pedal John Mayer thinks everyone should own - Guitar.com
- News - IK Multimedia ToneX One Joe Satriani Chrome Edition Deep Dive - Guitar Pedal X
- “The real cost of Trump’s tariff tax”: Morgan Amps says new tariffs will add up to $1,000 to the price of its amp heads - Guitar World
- "None of these other big bands are using these new fangled things” James Hetfield's guitar tech explains how he got the Metallica riff king to switch to modelling amps - Guitar.com
- News - The Boss Katana : GO - Personal Guitar Amplifier / Headphone Amp is Back! - Guitar Pedal X
- News - 9 Cool Headphone Amps - Guitar Pedal X
- ‘High off the sound’: Fergus Falls engineer is a guitar amp hero - mprnews.org
Bass Player News
- The Zolas bassist Dwi talks solo album 'Holy Moly' and the mushroom moment behind its title - vancouverisawesome.com
- Francis Buchholz Scorpions Bassist And Architect Of A Golden Era Dies Aged 71 - Noise11.com
- Legendary Ex-Scorpions Bassist Francis Buchholz Dies Aged 71 - The Brag
- Former Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz dies at the age of 71 - Rock and Roll Garage
- Scorpions Pay Tribute to Former Bassist Francis Buchholz After His Death at 71 - AOL.com
- Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz dies at 71 after private cancer battle - nydailynews.com
- Former Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz has passed away - Metal Insider
- Former Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz has died at the age of 71 - bgnes.com
- Former Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz dead at 71: ‘Our hearts are shattered’ - New York Post
- Former Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz dies after battle with cancer - kshe95.com
- Former SCORPIONS bassist Francis Buchholz dead at 71 - Lambgoat
- R.I.P. former Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz (1954-2026) - Sleaze Roxx
- “You gave him the world, and he gave you his music in return”: Former Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz dies, aged 71 - Guitar World
- Former Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz dies - The Music Universe
- Former Scorpions Bassist Francis Buchholz Dies at 71 - Billboard
- Ex-Scorpions Bassist Francis Buchholz Has Passed Away - Theprp.com
- Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz dies aged 71: Musician's family say their 'hearts are shattered' after his private battle with cancer - Daily Mail
- “You think back over what you have done and you drink a bottle of red wine and get out all the old albums and listen to them until four o’clock in the morning”: Ex-Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz dies aged 71 - MusicRadar
- Former SCORPIONS Bassist FRANCIS BUCHHOLZ Dead At 75 - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- Scorpions and Michael Schenker bassist Francis Buchholz dies aged 71 - Rayo
Bass Amp News
- Aguilar Introduces the Tone Hammer 210 Combo - Premier Guitar
- ID:X Floor – Blackstar’s first “high-performance” digital floor modellers deliver the tone and feel of real amps with hands-on controls - Guitar.com
- New Products for Bassists: Here are Some New Releases for NAMM 2026! - Gearnews.com
- “Uncompromising tone whenever inspiration strikes”: Blackstar unveils the Beam Mini – it’s portable, desktop-friendly, and as the first guitar amp to allow players to load Neural Amp Modeller captures, it's a game-changer too - MusicRadar
- Bass players, your headphone amp has arrived: Fender's Mustang Micro Plus gets a free bass firmware update - Mixdown Magazine
- Best multi-effects pedals: Our pick of the best all-in-one guitar FX modellers - MusicRadar
- Boss's GX-1B Bass Effects Processor exactly matches the Entry Level GX-1 Guitar one - while it comes with its own suite of dedicated Bass-centric onboard effects - Guitar Pedal X
- Peavey’s Legendary Super Festival Bass Amp is Back - Premier Guitar
- IK Multimedia Announces TONEX Plug for Guitar and Bass - Premier Guitar
- GEEZER BUTLER Is Selling The Bass Amp Heads He Used At BLACK SABBATH's Final Show - Metal Injection
- Geezer Butler to sell signed amps used at rehearsals for Black Sabbath’s final show - Guitar.com
- IK Multimedia ToneX Bass Pedals: Ampeg, Bassmann, And Much More! - Gearnews.com
- Mesa/Boogie resurrects the legendary Bass 400+ without the backache - Mixdown Magazine
- How the MESA/Boogie Bass-800D channels 50 years of bass amp innovation - Gibson
- Best bass amps for practice 2025: top combos for working on your chops at home - Guitar World
- “So much bass response for something so small and budget friendly”: Laney Amplification debuts the Digbeth Foundry range – affordable, powerful bass amps in combo and head formats - MusicRadar
- Juan Alderete Is Bringing Over 700 Bass Guitars, Pedals, and Amps to Reverb - Reverb
- MayFly Audio releases the Sunset Bass Amplifier Simulator - Premier Guitar
- Best bass amps: low-end tone machines - GuitarPlayer.com
- “It’s a game-changer for me”: Laney and Nathan East team up for a versatile signature bass head that ends a 40-year wait for the session legend - Guitar World
Guitar Effects News
- Drunk Beaver's Vitalii breaks the mould yet again to deliver my favourite ever sounding Klone - The Olbia Overdrive - Guitar Pedal X
- Morley 20/20 POWER WAH VOLUME Pedal - Wah & Volume Combo With +20dB Boost, Yellow - umlconnector.com
- “Its sound kicks the ass of amps three times its size”: Slash’s latest Magnatone Lil’ Viper 8-watt combo can go toe-to-toe with the big boys - MusicRadar
- 2 x Mad Professor longterm targets have landed - the Sky Blue Dumble style Overdrive, and the Double Moon Analog Chorus, Flanger and Vibrato - Guitar Pedal X
- “This thing is a RIPPER. No B.S. One channel. One tube-buffered effects loop”: Butch Walker and Divided by 13 team up for signature head with switchable EL84 and 6L6 power sections - Guitar World
- Flattley Pedals The Joker Demo | NAMM 2026 - Premier Guitar
- Cornerstone Music Gear - Nucleo Reverb | NAMM 2026 - Premier Guitar
- DSM Humbolt Dumblifier Overdrive Special | NAMM 2026 - Premier Guitar
- Valeton VLP-200 Dual Track Stereo Looper Pedal With Drum Machine - 99 Presets, Guitar, Bass, Keyboard, Vocals - umlconnector.com
- Wireless Footswitch Controller 4 Button - Rechargeable USB MIDI Pedal For Music & Effects Control (Brown) - umlconnector.com
- 2 of the best from Seymour Duncan have just recently landed - the Diamondhead Multistage Distortion + Boost, and Polaron Dual Modulated 2-16 Stage Analog Phase Shifter - Guitar Pedal X
- “It kicks the ass of amps three times its size”: Slash and Magnatone slither into the fray with the Lil’ Viper, a compact but venomous 8-watt combo amp - Guitar World
- Poly Effects Hugo: a Linux-based pedal powerhouse with Bitwig Studio and VSTs? - synth anatomy
- “If you can describe the effect, you can make your own”: Polyend Endless is a customisable stompbox with a text-to-effect generator - MusicRadar
- Shnobel Tone's Dumbbell Driver Boost evolves to an interesting hybrid of its Daily Driver Boost origins, where the conventional Boost on that is replaced by a new enhanced Dumble variant - Guitar Pedal X
- MXR unleashes EVH Modern High Gain Distortion Pedal - based on the EVH 5150 III Amp's Red Lead Channel - Guitar Pedal X
- Fender Tone Master FR-10 Cabinet - Active 1x10 Guitar Speaker Cabinet With 3-Band EQ, Class-D Power - umlconnector.com
- Polyend Endless: prompt or code your favorite FX pedal - synth anatomy
- Dunlop unveils iconic IM95K Crybaby Iron Maiden Killers Wah at NAMM - Guitar Pedal X
- Mapex targets comfort and speed with the Design Lab Swift belt-drive bass drum pedal - MusicRadar
Guitar and Bass News
- TV Jones Power'Tron Ultra | NAMM 2026 - Premier Guitar
- GENZLER® AMPLIFICATION is proud to announce the new MAGELLAN®ULV series of ULTRA * LIGHT * VERTICAL bass cabinet designs - Bass Gear Magazine
- Neural DSP Unveils Quad Cortex mini – The Full Quad Cortex Experience in a More Compact, Portable Format - Bass Gear Magazine
- Former Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz dead at 71: ‘Our hearts are shattered’ - New York Post
- “You gave him the world, and he gave you his music in return”: Former Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz dies, aged 71 - Guitar World
- Epiphone Unveils The Fatoumata Diawara Epiphone SG - Premier Guitar
- Aguilar Unveils Tone Hammer 210 Combo and New Pedals | NAMM 2026 - Premier Guitar
- Danelectro | NAMM 2026 - Premier Guitar
- Seymour Duncan Slash 3.0 Signature Humbuckers I NAMM 2026 - Premier Guitar
- The "Tele-Gib" Seymour W. Duncan 50th Anniversary Telecaster I NAMM 2026 - Premier Guitar
- “A deeper low-end presence within the StingRay lineup”: Sterling by Music Man launches its first ever baritone electric guitar - MusicRadar
- The Blackstar BEAM MINI harnesses a tube-driven feel in a digital desktop amp format – with plenty of amp models and even ISF control - Guitar.com
- “Johnny Marr got hit with a pint straight away. After the show we said, ‘That guitar is too fancy for touring with us!’” Stolen offsets, iconic bandmates and Coco Chanel’s advice – how the Cribs learned to be the best versions of themselves - Guitar World
- Marcus Miller F10-DX: Beautiful Boutique Basses for a Non-Boutique Price - Gearnews.com
- Mapex targets comfort and speed with the Design Lab Swift belt-drive bass drum pedal - MusicRadar
- ESP Guitars Launches 10 New LTD “400 Range” Guitars at NAMM 2026 - Premier Guitar
- Sterling by Music Man: New Luke model, Jason Richardson Cutlass and the brand's first-ever baritone debut at NAMM 2026 - Guitar.com
- Introducing the Upgraded Reverend Charger Series - Premier Guitar
- Aguilar Introduces the Tone Hammer 210 Combo - Premier Guitar
- Spector Bass Announces NC-4 Frank Bello Black Sapphire Signature Bass - Premier Guitar
New Music releases
- Catch Your Breath release new music video for ‘Lost’ - Distorted Sound Magazine -
- Harry Styles' fans go wild as he releases fun new music video for Aperture after announcing seven city global residency - Daily Mail
- Lunay, Yandel & More: Vote for the Best New Latin Music Release This Week - Billboard
- New Music Friday: 35 Hip-Hop, R&B Releases You Need On Your Playlist - VIBE.com
- Harry Styles debuts first new song in 3 years, 'Aperture' - USA Today
- New Music Friday: 10 new releases for a chilly January weekend (23 Jan 2026) - q107.com
- Harry Styles says new single is comeback's 'perfect little bow' - BBC
- Juvenile Drops New Single “BBB” and Sets Release Date for ‘BOILING POINT’ Album and Tour - The Source Magazine
- New Music Friday Releases: Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Arctic Monkeys AND MORE! - SPIN1038
- New Music Friday featuring Gorrilaz, FRIDAY* and Avalon Emerson & The Charm - - Happy Mag
- Harry Styles Takes You Dancing With New Single “Aperture” - hollywoodreporter.com
- Harry Styles Returns to Music With Song "Aperture" After 3 Years - E! News
- Harry Styles Declares ‘We Belong Together’ on New Single ‘Aperture’ - Rolling Stone
- Liza Minnelli Releases New Music With Some Help From AI: “The Shout Outs Are All Mine!” - Wide Open Country
- 2026 is starting off strong with numerous music releases and upcoming works - The Central Trend
- February 2026 New Music Releases - DRGNews
- New Music Friday: Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Arctic Monkeys, MIKA, Jessie Ware and more - Official Charts
- Arctic Monkeys release first new song since 2022 to benefit War Child - The Guardian
- Arctic Monkeys share new song ‘Opening Night’ from indie all-star ‘Help(2)’ War Child album - NME
- February 2026 New Music Releases - Ultimate Classic Rock
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