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“These days I would be reluctant to say that Gibson invented the archtop”:The untold history of German guitar building

The author of German Jazz Guitars shares the country's proud history of archtop design – and questions whether the classic jazz box actually originated there

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“I didn’t like it, but Tom said, ‘No, it’s great. Now you’ve got to double it’”: Mike Campbell on the riff he wanted to ditch – but Tom Petty made him double down

Campbell was forced to get creative to make a Heartbreakers classic

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“Someone in the band screamed, ‘Don’t you know what a privilege it is to play with Frank? How can you ruin his music?’” The notorious final tour of the Zappa band,and his bassist’s role in its demise

Though many regard the 1988 lineup as one of Zappa’s most musically formidable bands, the tour ended in disaster, with Zappa returning home, never to tour again

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Yvette Young has a new piece of signature gear – and it might be the one stop shop for all the ambient prog rock tones you’ve been waiting for

Young has a unveiled a new Mixwave plugin that has a treasure trove of toys to play with

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“Sensitive enough to cater to those who demand the utmost accuracy, simple enough to use that the gigging player will appreciate it”: Fender Strobo-Sonic Pro Tuner Pedal review

Fender's new utility pedal looks to bridge the gap between speedy tuning and precision set-up work

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“It’s like the wind is at your back when you’re playing it”: The difference between a PRS Silver Sky and Fender Stratocaster, according to a blues hero who plays both

The guitars have their own unique qualities in Philip Sayce's eyes – and both are welcome in his rig

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“The most important and influential bass guitarist in the 66-year history of the Precision”: Fender honors legendary Motown bass great with recreation of James Jamerson’s workhorse bass

Jamerson’s beloved Precision Bass has been recreated in all its vintage, warm-voiced glory

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Polyphia announces 2026 world tour – and they're bringing two of the biggest names in guitar playing with them

Tim Henson and co will play shows in North America, Europe, and the UK throughout 2026

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“In musical hierarchies, there was Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, and I was like, ‘Where am I?’” Ed O’Brien opens up on his guitar insecurities in Radiohead

The Radiohead guitarist speaks about dealing with depression in a band and finding solace in the familial bond with his bandmates

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“I’m creating music for the girls in the front row. Not the weird dude with a tripod trying to look up my shorts”: Grace Bowers has returned to YouTube and launched a new era on her own terms

Bowers has said guitar content isn’t a focus for her anymore on YouTube – and she’s now creating music “true to who I am”

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“We started talking about Black Sabbath, and Buzz goes, ‘You know they did this thing called drop D.’ We said, ‘What’s that?’” Kim Thayil on how Soundgarden took rock guitar into the superunknown – and the unfinished Chris Cornell tapes

With the Soundgarden guitarist‘s memoir, A Screaming Life, out now, he unpacks the story behind one of the most influential rock bands of the ’90s

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Was Neal Schon the godfather of ’80s glam metal? Tracing the surprising origins of Mötley Crüe’s seminal Looks That Kill riff

We time-travel back to the era of zebra stripes and ripped jeans to investigate the mystery of Crüe’s Looks That Kill and the riff that changed the world

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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

Vile has been guitar through and through since the beginning, so much so that he prefers the sound of dead strings...

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“There was a lot of interference and push to be commercial. We went along for the ride – and got left in the middle of nowhere”: The thrash metal bands who deserved to make it – but didn’t

For every success story like Metallica from the ‘80s metal movement, there are countless bands who didn’t make it. Some of them never gave up

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“The downpicking approach was inspired by competition between Dave and I. Like, ‘Here’s a riff… Wait, you can’t play that. Hahaha!’” How James Hetfield wrangled Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax for metal’s biggest reunion

James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett explain the origins of the Big 4 shows – which united Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax on one historic bill

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“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 deLucía’s darkest tour secrets… in conversation with Al Di Meola and Julian Lage

When the two jazz giants joined the same interview, no topic was off the table

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“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

How Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee found drummer Anika Nilles and put together the biggest reunion tour in prog rock history

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“We are not going to let the legacy be erased, nor are we going to let it be diluted”: Fender CEO addresses Strat cease-and-desist backlash

Edward 'Bud' Cole discussed the company's controversial legal campaign at a recent dealer event in the US

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“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

Osborne couldn't afford a B-Bender at first, so instead he got good, really good, at emulating the pedal steel sound without one

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“That is the most ‘Seattle’ riff I’ve ever heard in my life”: The recording of Nirvana's Bleach – and the band's “ultimate grunge song”

Recorded in four sessions in December 1988 for just $606.17, Bleach would signal the primal quality and rawness that came to define the grunge movement

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“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

They’ll be be among some prestigious players on Sunset Boulevard

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“I want three Telecasters, rather than just one, because they’re sufficiently different to justify it!” Everything you need to know about 1950s Telecaster pickups – and how to build your own replicas

Not all Blackguard Tele pickups are alike. Here's what you need to know to keep that twang in your sound

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Alex Lifeson’s Rush reunion live rig has been revealed – and there’s not an amp in sight on the Fifty Something tour

Tube amps remain sidelined for the band's reunion tour as Lifeson leans into modeling gear

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“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

The Extreme guitarist thanks the Swedish virtuoso for giving him a guitar-playing epiphany

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“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

The firm is a collaboration between the Pantera guitarist’s estate and Dean Zelinsky, the luthier behind his most famous axes

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