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- “We had a new guitar tech. The first thing he did was cut all the guitar strings off. It was devastating”: Why Kurt Vile prefers older guitar strings – and hardly ever changes his - Guitar World
- “We were talking like, ‘Let’s do a show with all the bands we grew up with.’ Then, ’What about the Big Four?’” How James Hetfield wrangled Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax for the biggest metal event of the 2010s - Guitar World
- The Traveling Wilburys only ever had one guest guitarist - Far Out Magazine
- “He threw an ashtray against the wall and said, ‘That’s the drum solo, man!’” Gary Lucas on Captain Beefheart’s paranoia, Lou Reed’s hypocrisy, Jeff Buckley’s genius and Bruce Springsteen’s generosity - GuitarPlayer.com
- Live Review: Orianthi @ Rams Head on Stage — 6/11/26 - Parklife DC
- The 1981 metal classic Kirk Hammett wishes he wrote - Far Out Magazine
- Johnny Marr announces new album, The Age of Everything – along with his two biggest solo shows to date - Guitar.com
- “I was dealing cards at illegal blackjack games to make money.” How a guitar-playing bodybuilder with no musical experience helped Alice Cooper resurrect his career in the shred-metal '80s - GuitarPlayer.com
- “My next-door neighbor was Paul McCartney. We got to talking, but I never told him who I was. I had this fear that he wouldn’t know me”: YouTubers, sloppy solos, Paco de Lucía’s darkest tour secrets… in conversation with Al Di Meola and Julian Lage - Guitar World
- Guitarist Marisa Anderson ‘reimagines the landscape of American music’ - thegazette.com
- “Alex and I looked at each other and went, ‘Wow, I think we have a drummer… Now what do we do?’” Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson on the inside story behind the Rush reunion - Guitar World
- “How can you fire me when I quit?’” Mick Abrahams’ life after Jethro Tull - Louder
- “I opened for Brad Paisley and his tech jokingly said, ‘Don’t do the B-Bender thing. That’s Brad’s thing’”: John Osborne on the time he got warned off the B-Bender – even though he didn’t have one - Guitar World
- “Influenced everybody”: The guitarists Billy Corgan called the “bible for rock guitar” - Far Out Magazine
- Guitar hero Steve Stevens celebrates new signature guitar, ‘Top Gun,’ Canadian fans - My Lethbridge Now
- Win tickets to see Charo in concert in Northern California - GuitarPlayer.com
- The recording of Nirvana's Bleach – and the band's “ultimate grunge song” - Yahoo
- The “Mozart” of guitar playing, according to Joe Perry - Far Out Magazine
- Martin D-18 and D-X2E Molly Tuttle review - GuitarPlayer.com
- This Shredder Melts His Face Off! - Premier Guitar
- “A full circle moment after all these years of making music side-by-side”: Billy Idol and Steve Stevens inducted into Guitar Center’s Hollywood Rockwalk - Guitar World
- “I won’t name any names... but I think those people missed my point.” Eddie Van Halen had a blunt critique of his imitators - GuitarPlayer.com
- “Take your time getting to know an instrument”: Top tips to find your own unique voice as an acoustic guitarist - Guitar.com
- Nuno Bettencourt pays tribute to Yngwie Malmsteen – and names the one thing most people get wrong about his playing - Yahoo
- “I must have rewound that solo on cassette 300 times, trying to understand what I had just heard”: Nuno Bettencourt pays tribute to Yngwie Malmsteen – and names the one thing most people get wrong about his playing - Guitar World
- “Dime played Dean Zelinsky’s MLs when he had braces on his teeth, and he died with one in his arms”: Dime Guitarz has officially launched – and its first model pays tribute to the Pantera legend’s most iconic guitar - Guitar World
- Dime Guitarz has officially launched – and its first model pays tribute to the Pantera legend’s most iconic guitar - Yahoo
- Zac Brown Praises Marcus King As One Of The Greatest Guitarists Ever - tasteofcountry.com
- How Greenslade proved two keyboardists and no guitarist could work - Louder
- “I had to kick him off the tour. He forced my hand.” Marcus King tried to help Brent Hinds after he left Mastodon. It all fell apart on tour - GuitarPlayer.com
- “Steve Albini died, a friend died, my father died, the father of my wife died. But I want to focus on the positive”: How a composer's approach and 40 DD-3 pedals helped noise masters MONO to heal their grief - Guitar World
- Box Tops and Aretha Franklin songwriter Dan Penn’s new album - Goldmine Magazine
- “I don't know any of the chord names. I would describe my guitar playing style as nothing technical. It's technically bad, actually, but it feels correct”: Singer-songwriter Eloise talks voice notes, vocal harmonies and learning guitar by watching YouTube - musicradar.com
- “It’s something I’ve always done all my life, and I can’t get away from it. I have to remind myself it’s okay to play the tops of chords”: Doug Gillard of Guided By Voices on finally going solo again – and the playing quirk he can’t shake - Guitar World
- One of the Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time Belongs to 1990 Hit – And It Still Rocks - Men's Journal
- The Rocker Behind Jimmy Page’s Favorite Guitar Solo Turns 79 Today - Parade
- "I remember looking at him and thinking: 'This guy's gonna die.'" Robben Ford's wild tales of Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Kiss, Joni Mitchell, George Harrison and more - Louder
- “A lot of cats say you don’t have to play fast, but it can cause you to phrase better”: Why bebop master Wes Montgomery never used a guitar pick – and only played using his thumb - Guitar World
- “Oh my god — I ruined my guitar!” Brian Setzer on the night a stunt went wrong and destroyed the rockabilly star’s beloved ’59 Gretsch - GuitarPlayer.com
- Igor Lisul Returns to Soft Rock Roots with New Guitar Instrumental Single 'I Will Always Love You' - The National Law Review
- “For a minute he thought, ‘They just both died tonight.’” Gregg Allman nearly died the same night Duane was killed, a new documentary reveals - GuitarPlayer.com
- “Paul went, ‘What are you gonna’ play?’ ‘I don’t know.’ There’s George Martin in the control room, a 50 piece orchestra waiting on me in the studio”: How Wings guitarist Henry McCullough recorded his one take solo on My Love - Guitar World
- “I showed up, plugged in, and it was over. Then I saw a video and thought, ‘I’m glad I didn’t dream it’”: When two of the world’s finest guitar players joined forces – Julian Lage on his jam with Derek Trucks - Guitar World
- “I wrote 17 themes. Then they came back and said, ’Yeah, they’re great. Can you do another 12?’” How Barrie Cadogan wrote the Better Call Saul hook – one of TV’s greatest guitar theme tunes - Guitar World
- “Every guitar that had been in Jamaica had to be pulled apart and rebuilt because of what the humidity there did to the electronics.” Pedal legend Roger Mayer reveals how he perfected Bob Marley's guitar tone for 'Exodus,' his global breakthrough - GuitarPlayer.com
- “I can’t imagine where guitar players would be without Eddie. We’d be listening to electronic music”: Sammy Hagar says Eddie Van Halen “saved” guitar players - Guitar.com
- 1978 Rock Classic Named Among Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time – And It Still Rocks - Men's Journal
- Joe Negri, Guitar Player and Handyman on ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,’ Dies at 99 - IMDb
- Joe Negri, Guitar Player and Handyman on ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,’ Dies at 99 - Variety
- UWM guitar grad performs winner’s recital at Carnegie Hall - UW-Milwaukee
- “Lack of use, plus three bouts of COVID, probably phased out the plectrum for me.” Mark Knopfler tells why he’s ditched the pick in favor of fingerpicking - GuitarPlayer.com
- “I can’t stand Eddie Van Halen’s guitar playing”: The Jesus and Mary Chain call Eddie Van Halen one of the “worst guitar players in the world” - Guitar World
- The Jesus And Mary Chain’s William Reid says Eddie Van Halen “ruined rock guitar” and was one of "the worst guitar players in the world" - NME
- Jesus and Mary Chain’s William Reid: Eddie Van Halen “Ruined Rock Guitar” - Consequence of Sound
- Joe Negri, beloved Mister Rogers' 'Handyman', jazz guitarist, dies days before 100th birthday - WTAE
- AI helped a musician with Parkinson’s finish his new album when he could no longer play guitar - Spectrum News NY1
- Paul McCartney on playing guitar with Paul Mescal: 'He knew it better than I did!' - BBC
- “He was shaking the last time I saw him. He had the same thing that killed Lowell George.” Roger McGuinn and Keith Richards remember Gram Parsons, who laid a path for the ’70s California sound and died at 26 - GuitarPlayer.com
- “The only reason I picked them is so I can look at their behinds.” P.J. Harvey on why she stopped playing guitar onstage — and the real reason she chose her first pair of tour guitarists - GuitarPlayer.com
- “They advertise it as a safe tonic to give you energy — and it’s not.” Brian Setzer on the “health drink” that sent him to rehab - GuitarPlayer.com
- Zach Top’s Beloved Guitar Player, Cheyenne Dalton, Stuns Fans With News She’s No Longer In The Band - Whiskey Riff
- Dave Mason, Traffic Co-Founder and “We Just Disagree” Singer, Dies at 79 - The Hollywood Reporter
- Ritchie Blackmore claims “most guitarists aren’t nice people” - Guitar.com
- Wayne Perkins, Guitarist to the Stars, Dies at 74 - The New York Times
- The Art of Teaching and Learning the Guitar - Stetson University
- “I try to avoid rehearsals at all costs now. It’s the only way I can survive”: I’m a drummer. You guitarists have made me hate being in bands - Guitar World
- Wayne Perkins, Guitarist Who Nearly Joined the Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dead at 74 - Rolling Stone
- Legendary Metal Guitarist Has Died - Men's Journal
- Legendary The Cure guitarist will perform in Boston Ballet's new "The Leisurely Installation of a New Window" - CBS News
- Motörhead Guitarist Phil Campbell Dies at 64 - Pitchfork
- Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell dead at 64 - Fox News
- Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell dies aged 64 after 'courageous battle' - BBC
- “My comfort zone is big volume and lots of blues”: Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell has died aged 64 - Guitar World
- Phil Campbell, Longtime Motorhead Guitarist, Dead at 64 - Rolling Stone
- Legendary singer and guitar player dead at 82: ‘There was no one like him’ - LehighValleyLive.com
- “I thought, ‘Well, it couldn’t hurt…’ It did hurt”: Noodling alone at home is fine. But you’ll never be a great guitar player unless you join a band - Guitar World
- John Hammond, Prolific Blues Guitarist and Singer, Dead at 83 - Rolling Stone
- Messy, precise, inherently musical: Cake’s John McCrea remembers guitarist Greg Brown - capradio.org
- Beloved Steel Guitar Player Pete Finney Has Passed Away - - Saving Country Music
- Greg Brown, founding Cake guitarist who wrote ‘The Distance,’ dies - KCRA
- Greg Brown, Cake Co-Founder and Guitarist, Dies at 55 - Pitchfork
- “I have so much more connection with my guitar now than I think I ever had”: John Mayer on playing with Dead & Company - Guitar.com
- Carlos Santana thinks guitarists who play fast are no better than gym bros flexing their muscles: “Big deal, so what?” - Guitar.com
- Black Midi Guitarist Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin Dies at 26 - Variety
- Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Singer, Guitarist and Co-Founder, Dies at 78 - Variety
- Bob Weir, guitarist and founding member of the Grateful Dead, has died at 78 - NPR
- Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Guitarist, Dead at 78 - Rolling Stone
- Perry Bamonte, Guitarist and Keyboardist for the Cure, Dies at 65 - The New York Times
- The Cure guitarist Perry Bamonte dies aged 65 - BBC
- “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
- Steve Cropper, guitarist of Booker T and the MGs, dies aged 84 - BBC
- Steve Cropper, Legendary Guitarist for Booker T. & the MG’s, Otis Redding and the Blues Brothers, Dies at 84 - Variety
- Steve Cropper, guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T and the M.G.'s, dies - NPR
- Steve Cropper, Booker T. & the M.G.’s and Stax Records Guitarist, Dead at 84 - Rolling Stone
- Steve Cropper, Blues Brothers guitarist and Stax Records legend, dies at 84 - Fox News
- “All of us are guilty of it — and so am I.” Gene Simmons says he has one regret about how he treated the late Ace Frehley - GuitarPlayer.com
- Guitar Player's Week in Music Quiz for November 14, 2025 - GuitarPlayer.com
- KISS founding guitarist Ace Frehley dies aged 74 - BBC
- 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
Guitar Amp News
- Galahcore FX - Plover Drive (Pedal Month 2026) - - Happy Mag
- Question of the Month: What Was Your First Amplifier? - Premier Guitar
- All the guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including Alex Lifeson's much-anticipated ES-355 - Yahoo
- Mad Professor Launches New Super Black Mini Pedal - Premier Guitar
- "The uncomfortable truth is that valves are not going to be around forever. But if this is the future of guitar amplification, I’m okay with it": EVH 5150 III Hypersonic 6L6 2x12 review - Guitar World
- Guitar Center Serves as Exclusive Launch Partner for the Orange Amps Outlowd ES Series, Designed in Collaboration with Ed Sheeran - Business Wire
- Best tube amps 2026: my top valve amplifiers for home, studio, and stage - GuitarPlayer.com
- Ed Sheeran debuts his signature Orange guitar amp: and it's designed for busking - Guitar.com
- “It’s honestly really amazing”: Tube amp aficionado Joe Bonamassa has been “beta testing” a Fender Tone Master on tour – and he’s impressed - Guitar.com
- Mesa/Boogie launches new video series exploring the history of the legendary amp brand - Guitar.com
- Orange beer? Legendary guitar amp brand launches its own IPA with Special Brew - Guitar.com
- Marshall has unveiled its new mascot – and we’re a little scared - Guitar.com
- “Over the past 24 hours, I’ve received hundreds of messages about my current situation. So yes, it’s official: I’ve made the move”: Jared James Nichols switches to Marshall amps - musicradar.com
- Blackstar Launches the Beam Mini Compact Desk Amp - Premier Guitar
- “He let me into the basement with all his secret stuff and he had 10 Dumbles down there. It was the biggest collection I’ve ever seen in person!” Jake Kiszka on the time he went shopping for the world’s most expensive guitar amp in Japan - musicradar.com
- Marshall’s Bromley 450 is a party speaker, guitar amp, and karaoke machine in one - Yahoo Creators
- Winzz Guitars Introduces the SilverTide Amplifier - Premier Guitar
- Best acoustic guitar amps 2026: let your acoustic tone shine - Guitar World
- Marshall and Synergy Introduce JCM 800 Dual Channel Three-Tube Module - Premier Guitar
- Lyndon Laney, founder of Laney Amplification, has died - Guitar.com
- Mooer takes on JBL with its own AI stem separation tech – and it could change the way you practice your favorite songs - Guitar World
- Revv Doubles Down on Portable Tube Amps With the G25 - Premier Guitar
- Revv G25: Next Gen Tube Amp Tones - Gearnews.com
- “That thing is unbelievable. It’s one of the most impressive new amps I’ve tried”: Misha Mansoor has a ton of amps. But one new design has blown him away - Guitar World
- Josh Homme’s first guitar amp wasn’t even a guitar amp - Yahoo
- “It sounds way bigger than it is”: Joe Bonamassa names his go-to studio amp – which he bought from Steven Seagal - Guitar World
- Winzz Guitars Introduces the Lead Burner 30W IR-Enabled Guitar Amplifier - Premier Guitar
- “I literally cried tears of joy”: After years of searching, YouTuber finally uncovers the identity of Kurt Cobain’s mystery In Utero amp - Guitar World
- Laney just launched its pocket-sized smart amp, the Prism-Mini – and you can already save $30 at Sweetwater - Guitar.com
- Who Needs Tube Amps in 2026? I Say: No One. - Gearnews.com
- Mesa/Boogie has relaunched the Triple Rectifier – the amp that helped define metal music - Guitar.com
- Laney Introduces Prism-Mini Guitar Amp & Bluetooth Speaker - Premier Guitar
- “A long-term model to support the future of live music”: Marshall pledges to donate a percentage of gear sales to support grassroots venues - Guitar World
- This Tiny LEGO Fender Guitar Amp Conversion Really Works - Hackster.io
- Best amp modelers 2026: get all your dream guitar tones in one - GuitarPlayer.com
- Synergy Unveils Machine-Learning Power Amp Technology - Premier Guitar
- Blackstar Unveils High Powered Digital Floorboard with Insane Versatility - Premier Guitar
- The best new guitar gear of NAMM 2026: More effects, more amps, more guitars and more tech than ever - musicradar.com
- Best guitar amps 2026: tube, solid-state, and modeling amplifiers for all levels and budgets - Guitar World
- Thomas Blug îs unerringly close now to a full release of his new state of the art BluGuitar Amp X Analog Amp & Pedal Modeller - Guitar Pedal X
- NAMM 2026: news, rumors, predictions - Guitar World
- Blackstar Introduces BEAM MINI - Premier Guitar
- 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
- BluGuitar Amp X: 100% Analog Amp with Digital Controls - Gearnews.com
- Magnatone Introduces Four New Amps At NAMM - Premier Guitar
- “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.com
- 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
- “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
- Meet Orange Amps’ UK-built all-valve guitar amp head: the OR60 - Mixdown Magazine
- NAMM 2026: The Best New Product News & Announcements - Reverb
- Orange Amps OR60 UK-Built All-Valve Guitar Amp - Premier Guitar
- “Designed to go hard”: Orange unveils new vintage-inspired single-channel OR60 amp head - Guitar.com
- “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
- Boss makes a splash ahead of NAMM with new GX-1 and GX-1B multi-effects units, plus a new busker-friendly Roland Cube Street amp - Guitar.com
- Roland Announces CUBE Street Mini Multi-Instrument Amplifier - Premier Guitar
- Roland delivers the ultimate live performance compact battery-powered Multi-Instrument Amplifier - the Cube Street Mini - Guitar Pedal X
- Victory Amplification reveals world-first braille guitar amp - Mixdown Magazine
- Victory sends blind guitarist custom braille amp in the most wholesome moment of 2026 so far - Guitar.com
- Overloud Adds AIR to THU - Premier Guitar
- Tube Amps: Finally Obsolete in 2026? - Gearnews.com
- “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
- Beyond Emulation: Amp Sims, AI, and the Coming Saturation Point - Premier Guitar
- “The first truly great portable electric guitar amp” is on sale for Black Friday - Guitar.com
- Joe Bonamassa spent nearly $25,000 buying Gary Moore’s Soldano SLO-100 amp head - Guitar.com
- “A Line 6 Spider III got me where I am today!”: Smashing Pumpkins guitarist Kiki Wong thinks it’s more important to have an expensive guitar than a pricey amp - Guitar.com
- VOX Introduces the Micro Superbeetle Guitar Amp - Premier Guitar
- 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
- News - IK Multimedia throws its hat in the ring for Plugin Headphone Amps, with its TONEX PLUG - Guitar Pedal X
- “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
- AFI guitarist ditched tube amps because they made him feel “constrained” sonically – does he have a point? - Guitar.com
- “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
- The 7 Best Acoustic Guitar Amps for Every Budget: For Buskers, Backyards & Big Stages - Gearnews.com
- Local Guitar Amp Designers Keep Those Vacuum Tubes Aglow - Racket MN
- PRS Guitars Announces New SE Models Plus a New Combo Amp Ahead of 2026 Updates - Premier Guitar
- Positive Grid and PosterLad Collaborate on Limited Edition Grille for Spark EDGE - Premier Guitar
- Save up to 70% on guitars, amps and effects in Thomann’s massive Guitar Days sale - Guitar.com
- Bad Cat Introduces the Ocelot — Small Amp. Big Attitude. Total Control. - Premier Guitar
- “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
- "He's not using a guitar amp. He's using a Tascam 424": JHS Pedals puts a Portastudio in a pedal to help you recreate Mk.gee's "elastic, lo-fi tones" - Yahoo
- 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
- Man buys John Lennon's old Fender guitar amp on Facebook Marketplace… for barely $4,000 - Guitar.com
- Sophie Burrell x Boss Katana Tone Crafting Masterclass at the Roland Denmark Street Store - Guitar Pedal X
- “There were things I wanted to achieve that I wasn't really getting out of those amps”: Why Slash worked with Magnatone on a signature amp after 30 years of playing Marshall stacks - Guitar World
- Mooer’s F15i is a $190 desktop modeling amp with touchscreen - Guitar World
- The Two-Rock Revival: How a Hand-Built Amp Brand Quietly Ascended in the Guitar World - Premier Guitar
- Blackstar Amplification Launches ID:X Series – A Cut Above - Premier Guitar
- News - 9 Cool Headphone Amps - Guitar Pedal X
- NAMM 2025 rumors, predictions and breaking news - Guitar World
- NAMM 2025 Gallery: The Latest from the NAMM Show - Premier Guitar
- ‘High off the sound’: Fergus Falls engineer is a guitar amp hero - MPR News
- News - My 9 favourite Greer Amps Compact Gain Pedals Capsule Collection is complete - Guitar Pedal X
- NAMM 2024 Live: Our top moments from the biggest gear show in the world - Guitar.com
- 16 of the Most Iconic Electric Guitar Amps - Guitar Pedal X
- How Many Amps Do You Use? - Premier Guitar
- NAMM 2021: The best guitar, pedal and amp releases this year - Guitar.com
- News - 6 of the Best Amps introduced at Winter NAMM 2018 - Guitar Pedal X
- News - Ultimate Guitar Amps - A Personal Selection - Guitar Pedal X
Bass Player News
- Fender Releases James Jamerson ’62 Precision Bass - Bass Magazine
- LIMP BIZKIT's WES BORLAND On SAM RIVERS's Death: 'It's Just Like We Lost A Piece Of Our DNA' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- Young musicians take center stage at Omaha’s Future of Rock festival - thereader.com
- Eddie Hammer passes - Bluegrass Today
- Living Colour bassist and CT native will headline Fourth of July concert in Bushnell Park - Hartford Courant
- Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler Celebrates Fender’s 75th Anniversary of the Precision Bass by Telling Us What He Loves Most About It - VICE
- BLACK SABBATH’s GEEZER BUTLER Says CREAM’s JACK BRUCE Was “The One Player That Totally Showed Me What You Could Do With a Bass” - Sonic Perspectives
- Ronald LaPread, Funky Bassist for the Commodores, Dies at 76 - The New York Times
- “Van Morrison didn’t speak to us, and we didn’t speak to him. We just started playing through the charts”: How jazz bassist Richard Davis helped shape Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks - Guitar World
- Geezer Butler Names ‘the One Player’ Who ‘Showed’ Him ‘What You Could Do With a Bass’ - Loudwire
- “Evil” bandleader who was more difficult than Peter Gabriel or Robert Fripp - Louder
- Pittsburg music camp honors late high school bass player with jazz education - AOL.com
- Pittsburg music camp honors late high school bass player with jazz education – KSNF/KODE - FourStatesHomepage.com
- Milford bass player announces new album, Lid Licker - nashuatelegraph.com
- Milford bass player announces new album, Lid Licker - The Cabinet Press
- SKID ROW’s RACHEL BOLAN – “All Bass Players Are Gargoyles” - BraveWords
- “Sam Rivers Forever” – watch Limp Bizkit’s video tribute to their late bass player - Chaoszine
- Bassist Ronald LaPread, Commodores co-founder, dies at 75 - WSB-TV
- Commodores co-founder and former bassist Ronald LaPread dead at 75 - Fox News
- “I’d be there with bass pedals, a triple-neck guitar and keyboards, and Robert Plant would ask, ‘Can you sing, as well?’” How John Paul Jones became Led Zeppelin’s ultimate wingman - Guitar World
Bass Amp News
- Blackstar Launches the Beam Mini Compact Desk Amp - Premier Guitar
- Genzler Amplification Introduces Magellan 800+ Bass Amp - Premier Guitar
- Best bass amps 2026: low-end tone machines - GuitarPlayer.com
- “What is this entire piece-of-s**t setup?”: Josh Homme once showed his Peavey/Yamaha bass rig to John Paul Jones – this was his reaction - Guitar.com
- LA Mayor Bass joins calls for 2028 Olympics head Wasserman to leave over Epstein ties - AP News
- Electronic Audio Experiments' Traynor Bass Amp derived Greathammer Overdrive delivers 50 decibels of killer low-end tone - Guitar Pedal X
- NAMM 2026: news, rumors, predictions - Guitar World
- 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
- Bass players, your headphone amp has arrived: Fender's Mustang Micro Plus gets a free bass firmware update - Mixdown Magazine
- Boss makes a splash ahead of NAMM with new GX-1 and GX-1B multi-effects units, plus a new busker-friendly Roland Cube Street amp - Guitar.com
- Peavey’s Legendary Super Festival Bass Amp is Back - Music Connection Magazine
- GEEZER BUTLER Is Selling The Bass Amp Heads He Used At BLACK SABBATH's Final Show - Metal Injection
- IK Multimedia ToneX Bass Pedals: Ampeg, Bassmann, And Much More! - Gearnews.com
- Mesa/Boogie resurrects the iconic Bass 400+ without the backache - Mixdown Magazine
- Laney Amplification unveils Digbeth Foundry range – affordable, powerful bass amps from 30W to 200W - Yahoo
- LANEY Launches Versatile DBF Series Bass Amps With Boutique Tone And Modern Features - Gear Gods
- Juan Alderete Is Bringing Over 700 Bass Guitars, Pedals, and Amps to Reverb - Reverb
- MayFly Audio releases the Sunset Bass Amplifier Simulator - Premier Guitar
- Bergantino Audio Announces the HP Ultra 2000W Bass Amplifier - Premier Guitar
- Boss announces significant V4 Update for the GT-1000, and V2 Update for the GT-1000 Core - which includes 3 New High Gain Amp Types - Guitar Pedal X
Guitar Effects News
- Sunn O))) & EarthQuaker Devices Announce the Sunn O))) HalfLife - Premier Guitar
- ThunderTomate's Over-Drive+ Rev G is a beautifully balanced natural / organic overdrive with 3 exceptionally usable Voices - Guitar Pedal X
- “All the sonic devastation of its predecessors at roughly half the size”: EarthQuaker Devices unveils compact version of Sunn O))) Life Pedal – and this time the ultimate doom pedal is here to stay - musicradar.com
- My Thermion PowerDrive and PowerMuff have landed, both excellent value versatile gain pedals with plenty of range - Guitar Pedal X
- Alex Lifeson’s Rush reunion live rig has been revealed – and there’s not an amp in sight on the Fifty Something tour - Guitar World
- Zvex unveils cool vintage style DB-1 always-on totally transparent ultra-high impedance Analog Pedal Output / Signal Chain Meter - Guitar Pedal X
- 4 of a Kind - Iconic Pedal Pouches - Guitar Pedal X
- Strymon goes fully analogue with new Series A pedals Fairfax and Canoga - Mixdown Magazine
- “Weird, small, brilliant, respectful of pedalboard space. What more could you need?” This week’s hottest new guitar gear – including Alex Lifeson’s ES-355, Charvel’s US return and Ed Sheeran’s new Orange squeeze - Guitar World
- Introducing the Trem-Band™ Brass Tremolo Blocker - Premier Guitar
- Mad Professor Launches New Super Black Mini Pedal - Premier Guitar
- “Ozzy requested a remote switch so he could turn the pedalboard off from the next hotel room.” Randy Rhoads’ constant practice drove Ozzy Osbourne crazy. The solution? A tiny pedalboard designed to please them both - GuitarPlayer.com
- Top 5 Shoegaze Pedals That Sound Absolutely Huge - YouTube
- “Every guitar that had been in Jamaica had to be pulled apart and rebuilt because of what the humidity there did to the electronics.” Pedal legend Roger Mayer reveals how he perfected Bob Marley's guitar tone for 'Exodus,' his global breakthrough - GuitarPlayer.com
- Should You Buy a Talkbox? 5 Killer Tracks That Use Them - Gearnews.com
- Epiphone, Charvel, Orange and More: Gear You Gotta Know About This Week 6/12 - Gear Gods
- "A stunningly good reverb pedal that sounds and operates like one twice the price": Hotone NC-200 Verbera review - musicradar.com
- Third of the Klowra Budding Bloom Series is the very left-field and quirky South Zoo Animal Voice Synth - Guitar Pedal X
- Revv Amplification: Signal Boost - Premier Guitar
- Best pedal amps 2026: top preamps, power amps, and amp modelers - Guitar World
Guitar and Bass News
- GEEZER BUTLER Reveals His Favourite BLACK SABBATH Bass Line Written On A P-Bass – “‘War Pigs’ Really Gave Me The Chance To Go Off On A Tangent And Fill Things In Behind TONY IOMMI’s Guitar And BILL WARD’s Drumming” - BraveWords
- Fender James Jamerson Precision Bass: Recreation of the Legendary ’62 P Bass - Gearnews.com
- My Thermion PowerDrive and PowerMuff have landed, both excellent value versatile gain pedals with plenty of range - Guitar Pedal X
- “I opened for Brad Paisley and his tech jokingly said, ‘Don’t do the B-Bender thing. That’s Brad’s thing’”: John Osborne on the time he got warned off the B-Bender – even though he didn’t have one - Guitar World
- “Dime played Dean Zelinsky’s MLs when he had braces on his teeth, and he died with one in his arms”: Dime Guitarz has officially launched – and its first model pays tribute to the Pantera legend’s most iconic guitar - Guitar World
- Check out Jason Mays’ in-depth demo of the Epiphone Futura RD Custom - Gibson
- The Rocker Behind Jimmy Page’s Favorite Guitar Solo Turns 79 Today - Parade
- “A lot of cats say you don’t have to play fast, but it can cause you to phrase better”: Why bebop master Wes Montgomery never used a guitar pick – and only played using his thumb - Guitar World
- Eastwood Guitars unveils an Angine de Poitrine-inspired double neck guitar/bass – polka-dots not included - Guitar.com
- “If you had a big carrier bag, you could put the body in the bag and have the neck go up your arm”: How a prolific guitar thief stole 50 headless bass guitars in the ’90s - Guitar.com
- No knobs? No problem – Sterling By Music Man takes bass guitar design minimalism to its logical conclusion with the super-cool Joe Dart Vision - musicradar.com
- “What’s that headless bass that looks like a toothpick? I really liked the sound, but I hated the bass”: How bassist Cliff Williams landed the gig (and found his sound) with AC/DC - Guitar World
- Dave Brock denies suggestion Hawkwind stole Paul McCartney's long-lost bass - Louder
- Electronic Audio Experiments' Greathammer evolved Solid State Bass Driver / Preamp sounds Thunderously Good on Guitar too! - Guitar Pedal X
- “It was the perfect choice to make fun of guitar heroes”: The story behind Angine de Poitrine’s ridiculous double-neck guitar - Guitar.com
- “50 years since you last played that”: Watch the moment Paul McCartney was first reunited with his long-lost Höfner bass – half a century after it was stolen - Guitar World
- News | The Lost Bass: How the 1961 Höfner Bass Found its Way Home - McCartney
- “I’ve got some bad news, Paul. Our truck was broken into and the bass was stolen.” Ian Horne recalls how he lost Paul McCartney’s Höfner bass - GuitarPlayer.com
- “The phone rang. It was Paul McCartney. That’s when I knew we’d found it”: We meet the man who reunited Paul McCartney with his long-lost Beatles bass - Guitar World
- “The moment we started playing with it, we just laughed”: Viral duo Angine de Poitrine have become one of the most talked-about bands on the planet – and microtonal guitar has been the key to their unlikely success - Guitar World
New Music releases
- aron! Releases Music Video For New Single ‘Shiny Stockings’ - uDiscoverMusic
- Rock Fans Will Love July 2026's Lineup of New Music - Ultimate Classic Rock
- Wade Bowen To Release New Music In September. - Country Insider
- Nosi & Sistek Release New Single “Burn For You” via Tomorrowland Music - Rave Jungle
- Ano Releases Sgt. Frog New Anime Film Theme Song Collab Music Video - Crunchyroll
- HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD To Release New Album In Early 2027 - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- The Warning Announces New Album Everything’s Falling For August 2026 Release and Drops New Single ... - mxdwn Music
- BlownBoy Explains Delay In Ruger’s New Music Releases - The Guardian Nigeria News
- Feid’s ‘El Moco Verde’ & More: Vote for the Best New Latin Music Release This Week - Billboard
- BTS, Olivia Rodrigo, Jack White & More: Which Is Your Favorite New Music Release This Week? Vote! - Billboard
- New Music Friday: 12 new releases for the last weekend of spring (12 June 2026) - Global News
- From BTS to Olivia Rodrigo, JAY B to Pritam: Which new music releases hit the mark and which miss it? | Hindustan Times - Hindustan Times
- The New Rock + Metal Albums Out Today - Loudwire
- “We’re trying to bring more energy by making it heavier”: Polyphia have invented a new genre with their rave riffing new single, CAN YOU FEEL IT - Guitar World
- 3 new music releases: Malcolm Todd, Vince Staples and Skrillex - Moab Sun News
- New album releases 2026: Dates for Madonna, Ariana Grande, Niall Horan and more - Official Charts
- From Taylor Swift to Role Model, Which New Music Release Is Your Favorite This Week? Vote! - Billboard
- New Music Friday: Taylor Swift, Niall Horan, Madonna, Sam Tompkins and more - Official Charts
- New music releases: Madonna, Taylor Swift, Niall Horan, SHINee lead the week with ultimate playlist | Hindustan Times - Hindustan Times
- Prince Estate to Release ‘Timeless,’ a Rarities Album Spanning the Artist’s Entire Career - Variety
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