Rosengarten Mannheim became a scorching-hot cauldron of all things guitar for three days – and there were plenty of ...

Suicide Silence’s riff beast Chris Garza may be the proud owner of the world’s first official seven-string Fender Strat, but he says getting the firm’s Custom Shop to commit to the build was a massive ...

There are gear demos and then there are gear demos in which a guitar legend performs the most radical amp mod to show us how ...

Subtle ageing complements a neat and tidy build, superb playability, and knock-out tone. Okay, the bridge suffers from the usual Jazzmaster buzz found on many models of this style, but the guitar more ...

Clay Melton remembers the exact moment he wanted to play the guitar. He was 10 and in his father’s truck driving around the northwest side of Houston. His father played Jimi Hendrix’s take on “All ...

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson came to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in October 2025 to preview their 2026 reunion tour.

Here are our 25 musical picks for the 25th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

From his heart to his hands, Gabriel Tenorio is always making music. “I can’t stop hearing it,” he said. “I can’t stop hearing my memories.” For as long as he can remember, the Boyle Heights native ...

The next generation of the Swedish firm's headless guitar design has arrived; is this the guitar to finally convince the cynics to try one out?

If you want to get a chunky, full-sounding guitar mix, there are a few tricks to get you there fast - and Skunk Anansie guitarist and ACM tutor Ace is here to show ’em to you. In this video ...

British band Radiohead's rhythm guitarist Ed O'Brien has been putting a radical redesign of the electric guitar through its paces.

Noah Scott was sitting in the Raleigh-Durham airport eating a Subway sandwich after a cancelled flight when the call came in. On the other end of the line was Larry Hall, chief curator of the Jim ...