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- “If it sounds heavy on a classical guitar, then it will sound even heavier once I’m plugged in”: Foam swords, steel riffs – and medieval raga? Meet the queen of fantasy doom metal guitar, Castle Rat’s Riley Pinkerton - Guitar World
- Interview: Rene Lopez - The Big Takeover
- “Anything but the guitar”: Marcus King claims he never plays guitar at home – and thinks it makes him a better musician - Guitar.com
- “Everybody looks at him as Mr. Tap and Mr. Shred. That’s just a flavor of what he did”: Wolfgang Van Halen on one the most overlooked and underrated aspects of Eddie’s playing - Guitar World
- “Transcribing Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass really helped me on my journey. You can see the amount of joy they were bringing to the music”: How Italian maestro Andrea Rinciari is reinventing the great American jazz guitar songbook - Guitar World
- “I was in Trader Joe’s putting bananas in a shopping cart when Jon Bon Jovi called. He says, ‘Hey, we’re gonna need you in Calgary tonight.’” Phil X on his surprise induction into Bon Jovi - Guitar Player
- “A bang-for-buck champ that performs above its price class.” We review the Gretsch Electromatic CVT Double-Cut with Wraparound Tailpiece - Guitar Player
- “I bought this on Craigslist at a parking lot in Nashville. Some random guy met me in this weird van”: How Stephen Wilson Jr. bought his workhorse, ride-or-die nylon-string guitar - Guitar World
- HAKEN part ways with guitarist Charlie Griffiths and bassist Conner Green - Lambgoat
- Sting guitarist Dominic Miller on why the Beatles' harmonies are “indestructible” - Yahoo
- “The biggest mistake was just not shutting down at that point.” As ‘Frampton Comes Alive!’ turns 50, Peter Frampton tells how its success nearly killed his solo career before it started - Guitar Player
- Remembering Louis Stewart (1944-2016) - UK Jazz News
- ‘Everybody’s playing this track down in Louisiana – it’s packing the dancefloors’ | CC Adcock Interviewed - whynow
- “How do I get him to come to my kitchen table????” Roger Daltrey makes a rare appearance following the Who’s final tour singing a Johnny Cash classic at a dinner table - Guitar Player
- MARTY FRIEDMAN Explains Why He Lost The OZZY OSBOURNE Gig To ZAKK WYLDE - Metal Injection
- Lehigh Valley guitar star, who performs with Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo and others, answers our questions - The Morning Call
- The one time when Daron Malakian (System Of A Down) performed with Metallica - Chaoszine
- GUITAR GIRLS: Lianne La Havas, Mitski + Brittany Howard - KALW
- DAVE MUSTAINE Explains Why Guitar Solo In MEGADETH's Version Of 'Ride The Lightning' Is Close To KIRK HAMMETT's 1984 Recording - 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 - Guitar Player
- SYSTEM OF A DOWN's DARON MALAKIAN: How I Ended Up Playing Guitar For METALLICA For A Couple Of Shows In 2000 - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- Guitar Practice in 2026: How to Realistically Improve - Gearnews.com
- “Something inside me said, ‘This man’s not going to live to be an old guy.’” Ozzy Osbourne on his last conversation with Randy Rhoads - Guitar Player
- “Who knows? It was worth pursuing. They did okay without me”: Adrian Smith on the time he auditioned for Def Leppard - Guitar World
- “We’ve known him for a long time. He was one of the true best friends.” Alex Van Halen says he and Steve Lukather will work on a new album - Guitar Player
- “I showed up on the first day of shooting, saying, ‘This is a guitar I bought at Guitar Center. I want to use my guitar in the movie’”: Jack Black reveals he still owns the Gibson SG that characterized School of Rock - Guitar World
- 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
- “A Tube Screamer is a Tube Screamer. It’s one of the great cons of the guitar industry. They got these dirt boxes right the first time!” Why Jared James Nichols stopped obsessing over gear – and honed in on his playing instead - Guitar World
- “I sold my first guitar to my drummer. He paid me $50, put SpongeBob stickers on it, then lit it on fire”: Kiki Wong reveals her Smashing Pumpkins live rig, gear regrets and how a Line 6 amp made her the player she is today - Guitar World
- One Ohio man’s mission to immortalize a ‘sacred instrument’ - The Statehouse News Bureau
- “He says to me, ‘Keep vamping, just jam,’ while he’s having a heart attack. Then he started grabbing his chest.” The show that ended David Bowie’s touring career — and the song that became his last hit - Guitar Player
- “He said, ‘Yeah, what are you gonna do about it? You’re a girl. You don’t have the money to fight this.’” Rita Coolidge says Eric Clapton owes her a writing credit for one of the most celebrated songs in rock - Guitar Player
- WOLFGANG VAN HALEN: 'I Think My Dad Is An Incredibly Underrated Rhythm Guitar Player And Songwriter' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- “The last conversation I had with Tom, he said, ‘If I have to be in a wheelchair, I'm going to do it.’” Mike Campbell shares the best and worst of his years as Tom Petty’s guitar partner - Guitar Player
- “I said, ‘You have no idea how many things I’ve stolen from you.’ And he said, ‘Yes, I have.’” Randy Bachman on his jaw-dropping introduction to Stephen Stills at Neil Young’s 70th birthday party - Guitar Player
- “I put the string under the head of the pickup screw. He was watching me with his chin hanging down on his lap.” From Triumph to Bon Jovi — Phil X on his adventures with Chris Cornell, Richie Sambora, Alice Cooper, Orianthi and Rik Emmett - Guitar Player
- “There’s a couple guys in the band that were really glad for me to be gone”: Steve Morse opens up on his departure from Deep Purple – and why it was time for him to go - Guitar World
- “Dylan had one guitar. He took it into a studio in the Village with a notebook, sat down and made a record.” Jason Isbell on developing his unique acoustic approach for ‘Foxes in the Snow’ - Guitar Player
- “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
- “Muddy Waters made me eat a sandwich. He said, ‘Just call me your daddy.’” Buddy Guy on how a 150-foot guitar cable, a great big lie and a little kindness got him the gig that launched his career - Guitar Player
- “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 - Guitar Player
- "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
- “I gave him 1,600 bucks and my guitar. It was all the money I had in the world.” Vince Gill on the guitar that launched his career, and the vintage treasures that have inspired his muse - Guitar Player
- 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 - Guitar Player
- 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
- “I never practice. From time to time, I just open my case and throw in a piece of raw meat.” A rare interview with the guitar ace who spurned the jazz world, climbed the pop charts and lived in terror of taking a solo - Guitar Player
- 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
- 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 - Guitar Player
- Video: AFI's Jade Puget on His Approach to Guitar-Playing + Production - Reverb
- “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 - Guitar Player
- “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
- “I owe not just an artistic debt to him, but a life debt to him”: Tom Morello on the genius of Ace Frehley - 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
- KISS founding guitarist Ace Frehley dies aged 74 - BBC
- “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
- Ace Frehley 1951-2025: Guitar community mourns the death of Kiss’s trailblazing founding guitarist - Guitar.com
- Kiss Guitarist Ace Frehley Dead at 74 - Rolling Stone
- “I didn’t realize how short he was!” The late Ace Frehley always spoke his mind. And when it came to his Kiss replacements Bruce Kulick, Vinnie Vincent and Tommy Thayer, the Space Ace had plenty to say - Guitar Player
- Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley Pay Tribute to Kiss Guitarist Ace Frehley: “Irreplaceable Rock Soldier” - The Hollywood Reporter
- Ace Frehley, legendary Kiss guitarist, dies at 74 - NBC News
- “I got my guitar and smashed it to smithereens. I said, ‘Now will you get out of my effing life!?’” Pete Townshend on the first guitar he ever broke — at age 13 — and John Entwistle's hilarious response - Guitar Player
- Ace Frehley, a Founding Member of Kiss, Is Dead at 74 - The New York Times
- “He just blows everybody away”: Samantha Fish on who she thinks are the best modern blues guitar players right now - Guitar World
- Keith Urban’s Guitar Player Maggie Baugh Once Said She Wouldn’t Date Band Members: It’s a ‘Rule’ - National Enquirer
- “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 - Guitar Player
- Maggie Baugh: What to know about Keith Urban's guitar player - Fox News
- Dad of Keith Urban’s guitar player addresses romance rumors after Nicole Kidman divorce - New York Post
- “I had no idea how good of a guitar player he was when we started recording. Most of the guitar on the records is him”: Foo Fighters super-producer Nick Raskulinecz on the most surprising thing about Dave Grohl's guitar playing - Guitar World
- Nuno Bettencourt recalls his final conversation with Ozzy Osbourne – as “the only guitar player who said no” to playing for him - Guitar.com
- “Probably the only good thing that ever came from my drinking.” Marcus King didn't realize he bought a gem of a vintage guitar until this happened - Guitar Player
- Get more Guitar Player stories in your day with these two easy steps - Guitar Player
- Legendary Steel Guitar Player Robby Turner Dead at 63 - Taste of Country
- FORBIDDEN's CRAIG LOCICERO: 'If You Can't Write Heavy S*** In' The Standard Guitar Tuning, 'Then I Don't Know What To Tell You' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- “I couldn't get up to the top frets, but the SG suited me perfectly”: Why Tony Iommi never became a Les Paul player - Guitar.com
- Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia was intimidated by guitar legend Michael Bloomfield: book - Fox News
- CE Pro All Star Band Guitar Players Recount Their Favorite Players and Gear - cepro.com
- Henley air guitar player out of world championships - BBC
- 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
- Zakk Wylde and Gus G. on Ozzy Osbourne - Guitar Player
- “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 - Guitar Player
- “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 - Guitar Player
- The '70s rock guitarist The Kinks' Dave Davies calls the “great and underrated guitar player of the time” - Guitar.com
- Video 10-year-old guitar-playing prodigy rocks on - ABC News
- 10-year-old guitar-playing prodigy rocks on - MSN
- Mick Ralphs, Guitarist in Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, Dead at 81 - Rolling Stone
- “He decided he didn't want to be the lead guitar player anymore.” Pete Townshend on Roger Daltrey’s career-changing move that made the Who guitarist an axe-wielding icon - Guitar Player
- Rick Derringer, Guitar Journeyman Behind ‘Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo,’ Dead at 77 - Rolling Stone
- Rick Derringer, famous for "Hang on Sloopy" and "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo," has died. Read our exclusive 2024 interview where he recalled inspiring Eddie Van Halen and performing with Johnny Winter - Guitar Player
- “There's no chance to ever play together again.” Dave Navarro unloads about Jane's Addiction and the shocking night when Perry Farrell attacked him onstage - Guitar Player
- 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 - Guitar Player
- Winner of Guitar Player Magazine International Competition to perform locally - timesobserver.com
Guitar Amp News
- “All the grin-inducing firepower of the full-flight 5150 in a stripped-down model”: EVH 5150 Iconic Series 15W EL34 Head review - Guitar World
- 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
- Reverb shares its best selling gear of the year – and 2025 was the year of the Strat - Guitar.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
- 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
- “This amp has taken me about 10 years to nail down”: A long-lost Beach Boys Dumble that has spent the past 35 years in Hawaii has surfaced – and Jason Momoa is using it on his new album - Guitar World
- “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
- “Virtually indistinguishable from the all-tube original”: EVH signals the start of a brave new era with its first digital combo – which promises authentic Eddie Van Halen tube amp tones - Guitar World
- Cyber Monday guitar deals 2025 LIVE: all of today's biggest savings at Sweetwater, Guitar Center, Fender, Amazon and more - Guitar World
- “Our most compact all-in-one unit ever”: Fractal goes up against IK Multimedia and Line 6 with the AM4 – its most affordable and user-friendly amp modeler to date - Guitar World
- “The first truly great portable electric guitar amp” is on sale for Black Friday - Guitar.com
- The Boss Katana 50 is my favorite practice amp – and it just hit the lowest price of the year thanks to this Amazon Black Friday deal - Guitar World
- 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
- 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
- Local Guitar Amp Designers Keep Those Vacuum Tubes Aglow - Racket MN
- 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
- Video: Meet Charlie Barker, a Twin-Style Tube Amp For Working Musicians - Reverb
- The 7 Best Pedal Amps: The Perfect Solution for Your Amp-Less Board! - Gearnews.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
- 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
- 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
- “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
- EarthQuaker's latest utility is the super handy Easy Listening '65 Deluxe Voiced Analog Amp Simulator / Headphone Amp - Guitar Pedal X
- “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 - Manchester Evening News
- “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
- The Full Barber Electronics Range of 8 Compact Circuits is imminently coming into stock at Andertons! - Guitar Pedal X
- Best guitar VSTs 2025: Get the best simulated guitar tones for your next production - MusicRadar
- 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
- Supro Announces New Airwave Tube Amp - Premier Guitar
- News - Valeton issues a formidable challenger to the ToneX One with its GP-5 - Guitar Pedal X
- INTRODUCING FENDER STUDIO: RECORD, JAM AND CREATE WITH THE AUTHENTIC SOUND OF FENDER AMPS AND EFFECTS - PR Newswire
- Best tube amps 2025: My top tube amps for the ultimate guitar tone - Guitar Player
- Thomann has acquired Hughes & Kettner – and is promising a bright future for the German amp giant championed by Alex Lifeson and Tommy Thayer - 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
- Best bass amps 2025: low-end tone machines - Guitar Player
- 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
- News - Chug vs Chug Lite - a simple GPX Head-to-Head Comparison - Guitar Pedal X
- GAK sells its stock and website to Gear4music for £2.4 million after entering insolvency - Guitar.com
- Divided by 13 CCC 9/15 Review - Premier Guitar
- Best amp modelers 2025: Get your dream guitar tone with my top picks - Guitar Player
- 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
- “This is going to merge into a very hot topic among guitar players”: Why John Mayer decided against ditching his tube amps for modelers for Dead & Company’s Sphere residency – despite the venue’s shortcomings - Guitar World
- “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
- “His expertise and vision have always set the standard for what a great amplifier should be”: Matchless Amplifiers and Bad Cat Amps luminary Mark Sampson – one of the leading minds of the boutique amp movement – has passed away - Guitar World
- News - The Boss Katana : GO - Personal Guitar Amplifier / Headphone Amp is Back! - Guitar Pedal X
- Positive Grid Launches the Spark NEO - Premier Guitar
- News - 9 Cool Headphone Amps - Guitar Pedal X
- News - 2025 January Pedal-Chain Update - Episode I - Peak Pedal Mania - Guitar Pedal X
- Best pedal amps 2026: Get the sound, feel and response of an amp, all on your pedalboard - MusicRadar
- Game-changers, trends, innovations, revivals and show-stoppers: the key guitars, amps and pedals of NAMM 2025 - MusicRadar
- What’s going on with Dumble Amps? The return of an icon - Guitar World
- NAMM 2025 live! The biggest guitar news as it happened - Guitar World
- NAMM 2025 as it happened: rolling news from the world's biggest music-making gear show - MusicRadar
- NAMM 2025 Live: The biggest product launches, plus photos from the show floor… - Guitar.com
- NAMM 2025 rumors, predictions and breaking news - Guitar World
- “This is the secret weapon... This thing is incredible”: It’s finally here – Josh Homme teams up with Peavey to recreate its sought-after Decade amp – and it has a host of studio- and stage-ready upgrades - Guitar World
- NAMM 2025 Gallery: The Latest from the NAMM Show - Premier Guitar
- Marshall Announces New Products at NAMM 2025 - Premier Guitar
- NAMM 2025: The Best New Product News & Announcements - Reverb
- Fender Reveals New Releases for 2025: NAMM Special - Premier Guitar
- Orange Announces Three New Portable Amps and the O Tone Combo Amp - Premier Guitar
- “Lightweight, portable, and incredibly powerful”: Orange launches “studio-grade and gig-ready” Baby Range – three affordable, compact heads that downsize classic Orange tones (and introduce some new ones, too) - Guitar World
- Boss launches WAZA Tube Amp Expander Core with “powerful enhancements focused on direct recording applications” - Guitar.com
- Boss shrinks and enhances its Waza Tube Amp Expander - now in more compact W-TAE Core edition - Guitar Pedal X
- Mark Tremonti: “I collect amps like most people collect guitars. My biggest affliction is buying Dumble amplifiers” - Guitar.com
- News - The Origin Effects Deluxe 55 and Tubesteader Eggnog are my Tweed Kings! - Guitar Pedal X
- ‘High off the sound’: Fergus Falls engineer is a guitar amp hero - MPR News
- “This is why we want to show up at NAMM”: Marshall is returning to NAMM for the first time in 5 years – and has teased some blockbuster launches - Guitar World
- The Battle for the Amp Capture / Profiler Middle-Ground heats up - Neural DSP Nano Cortex vs AmpliTube Tonex - Guitar Pedal X
- Kirk Hammett thinks Marshall amps sound “30 per cent better” when you plug them in in the UK than they do in America – is he right? - Guitar.com
- NAMM 2024: all the latest guitar news, rumors and predictions from the greatest gear show on Earth - Guitar World
- 16 of the Most Iconic Electric Guitar Amps - Guitar Pedal X
- Tubesteader's 4th Tube-Powered Gain Pedal is its first Compact - the rather smart Eggnog Tweed-voiced Overdrive / Preamp - Guitar Pedal X
- Mike Soldano finally delivers his legendary SLO-100 Amp in pedal format - as the Super Lead Overdrive / Preamp - Guitar Pedal X
- The Best-Selling Pedals and Amps of 2021 - Reverb
- A Brief Hobbyist Primer on Key Tone Stack Types and Circuit EQ Configurations - in collaboration with Master-Builder Adrian 'Thorpy' Thorpe - Guitar Pedal X
- News - Boss Moves Even Further Ahead with its New and Improved MKII Katana Amp Range - Guitar Pedal X
- News - What Two Years of Tone-Questing Looks Like - Acquisitions, Passes and Still Probables - Guitar Pedal X
- News - The Perfect Guitar Amp Design / Next Level Boss Katana - Guitar Pedal X
- News - Ultimate Guitar Amps - A Personal Selection - Guitar Pedal X
Bass Player News
- Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones is auctioning off a bunch of studio gear – including a blown amp he left at Dave Grohl’s house - Guitar.com
- Ronnie Wood recalls Jeff Beck putting him on bass — and Jimi Hendrix becoming his first superfan - inkl
- Obituary: Ernest McCarty, jazz bassist and playwright - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- EXODUS Bassist JACK GIBSON: "There's No Music Business Anymore" - Metal Injection
- “Having grown up playing road hockey, I felt I had to hit the bass as hard as I could. Mr Carter taught me to refine my sound”: What Brandi Disterheft learned from her studies with bass legend Ron Carter - Guitar World
- “All I remember is thinking that the bass turned into a snake. I broke all the strings, threw it down and left the stage”: Bootsy Collins was tripping on LSD when he took the James Brown bass chair to its most in-your-face level - Guitar World
- “I’ve worked with Lee Sklar. I got to see Anthony Jackson play. I had Pino Palladino on my first album. I’ve been able to absorb that bass-playing mojo”: How the bass guitar became a crucial part of Sheryl Crow’s songwriting process - Guitar World
- Famous faces say final goodbye to Stone Roses bass player - Sky News
- “He will go down as one of the greatest rock drummers of all time. I can bring him a bass riff in seven-and-a-half and he’ll be right on it”: Justin Chancellor explains how bass fits into Tool’s challenging brand of prog - Guitar World
- “The time has come to properly address my illnesses and deal with them”: Biffy Clyro bassist James Johnston steps back from band to address mental health and addiction issues - Guitar World
- Biffy Clyro bass player quits tour over addiction and mental health issues - BBC
- “My world came crumbling down right in front of me”: Original Arctic Monkeys bassist reveals the moment he was kicked out of the band - Guitar.com
- Flea has announced his debut solo album – but he’s not the only bassist playing on it - Guitar World
- Limp Bizkit Reveal Their New Bass Player One Month After the Death of Founding Bassist Sam Rivers - VICE
- Ian Lees, Bass Player for Moving Pictures, Has Died - Noise11.com
- Gary 'Mani' Mounfield: Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist dies aged 63 - BBC
- Beloved rocker dead at 63: ‘One of the best to ever pick up a bass guitar’ - PennLive.com
- Gary Mounfield, former Stone Roses bassist, has died at 63 - WTOP
- Remembering Mani, by Gordon Moakes - The Quietus
- Former Stone Roses bassist Gary 'Mani' Mounfield dies aged 63 - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Bass Amp News
- Peavey’s® Legendary Super Festival Bass Amp is Back - Bass Gear Magazine
- Peavey’s Legendary Super Festival Bass Amp is Back - Premier Guitar
- Best multi-effects pedals 2026: Our pick of the best all-in-one guitar FX modellers - MusicRadar
- 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
- Video: Do You Really Need a Bass Amp? - Reverb
- How the MESA/Boogie Bass-800D channels 50 years of bass amp innovation - Gibson
- 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 2025: low-end tone machines - Guitar Player
- Seymour Duncan Announces The PowerStage 700 Bass Amp - Premier Guitar
- Bergantino Audio Announces the HP Ultra 2000W Bass Amplifier - Premier Guitar
- Winter NAMM 2025 – Day 1 - Bass Gear Magazine
- Esko, Grand Rapids, Northwestern bass anglers head to state - Duluth News Tribune
- “Designed to meet the exacting standards of today’s bassists”: Aguilar has overhauled some of its most iconic bass amps with some choice upgrades - Guitar World
- Genzler Amplification Launches Kinetix 800 Bass Amp - Premier Guitar
- Boss Announces Katana-500 Bass Head and Cabinet 112 Bass - Premier Guitar
- Boss unleashes a Bass Edition of its Killer ME-90 Multi-FX pedal alongside a potent new Katana 500 Watt Bass Head with matching C112B Cab - Guitar Pedal X
- “Raises professional bass amplification to the next level”: Boss has unveiled its first-ever Katana bass head – and it might have just changed the game for bass players - Guitar World
Guitar Effects News
- Nuclear Audio Introduces Fission Drive - Premier Guitar
- Horrothia Effects Triage Deluxe review – the ultimate all-in-one gain machine for fussy tonehounds? - Guitar.com
- “One of the most expressive effects ever conceived”: Cliché or pedalboard essential? How the Cry Baby wah pedal changed electric guitar – and why it’s still (kinda) underrated - Guitar World
- “He feels it should be in the hands of people who will put it to good use”: John Paul Jones’ studio gear goes up for auction – including a rare £24,000 Moog Model 15 - MusicRadar
- Peterson introduces new compact always-on StroboVue Stroboscopic Tuner - featuring essentially just the screen part of the compact edition - Guitar Pedal X
- Pedal Scoping and Shopping in Reykjavík! - Guitar Pedal X
- Boss XS-1 Poly Shifter Review - Premier Guitar
- “All the grin-inducing firepower of the full-flight 5150 in a stripped-down model”: EVH 5150 Iconic Series 15W EL34 Head review - Guitar World
- “You don’t really see that a lot with competitors in other industries – throwing parties together, doing joint releases, supporting each other online”: The boutique pedal explosion and what comes next in this golden age of guitar effects - Guitar World
- “That belongs in a museum”: Mick Gordon is selling the Axe-Fx that soundtracked Doom – and it includes all of the original presets - Guitar World
- Looking to kickstart 2026 with a new guitar or pedal project? Here are 12 of my favourite DIY guitar kits, easy mods, and simple pedal builds to help you smash the January blues - Guitar World
- Boss XS-1 Poly Shifter review – all the magic of the XS-100 in a smaller, smarter format - Guitar.com
- Video: Andy Martin's Top Pedals of 2025 - Reverb
- “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 - Guitar Player
- Boss OC-5 review: what makes a great octave pedal? - Guitar.com
- “If we see something like the DigiTech Bad Monkey overdrive trending, it’s like, ‘Okay, who opened their mouth?’ And it’s usually JHS’s Josh Scott”: From the amp modeling revolution to the demand for dirt, these are the trends driving the used gear market - Guitar World
- Reverb has unveiled the bestselling pedals of 2025 – and ’80s tone nostalgia rules supreme - Guitar World
- Polarising Boss pedals, brilliant Martins and a relic Fender: these are my favourite new guitar products of 2025 - Guitar.com
- News - 2025 Best New Modulation, Pitch, Utility and Multi-FX Pedals of the Year - Guitar Pedal X
- Poly Effects Trails review – probably the world’s most inspiring multi-effects pedal - Guitar.com
Guitar and Bass News
- Höfner, The Company that Created Pul McCartneys Iconic Violin Bass Files for Bankruptcy - LIVING LIFE FEARLESS
- “One of the most expressive effects ever conceived”: Cliché or pedalboard essential? How the Cry Baby wah pedal changed electric guitar – and why it’s still (kinda) underrated - Guitar World
- Boss XS-1 Poly Shifter Review - Premier Guitar
- “Having grown up playing road hockey, I felt I had to hit the bass as hard as I could. Mr Carter taught me to refine my sound”: What Brandi Disterheft learned from her studies with bass legend Ron Carter - Guitar World
- Höfner blames effects of US tariffs for bankruptcy, but “business operations will continue” throughout administration - Guitar.com
- “We would like to clarify a few things”: Höfner, maker of Paul McCartney’s legendary Violin Bass, shares statement following bankruptcy filing - Guitar World
- “He will go down as one of the greatest rock drummers of all time. I can bring him a bass riff in seven-and-a-half and he’ll be right on it”: Justin Chancellor explains how bass fits into Tool’s challenging brand of prog - Guitar World
- “I bought my first Höfner bass in the ’60s. I have loved it ever since”: Paul McCartney pays tribute to Höfner as the legendary German brand’s future hangs in the balance - Guitar World
- Höfner – maker of Paul McCartney’s iconic violin bass – files for bankruptcy - Guitar.com
- Höfner, the famed instrument maker behind Paul McCartney’s iconic Violin Bass, reportedly files for bankruptcy - Guitar World
- “He looked up at me and said, ‘That’s how the snare cuts through.’” Greg Lake on what happened when Robert Fripp asked him to play bass on King Crimson's debut album - Guitar Player
- Peavey’s Legendary Super Festival Bass Amp is Back - Premier Guitar
- “Rickenbacker had a doubleneck guitar and bass, so I bought one. Then Fender came to me and said, ‘Why are you playing that?’” How Moody Blues bassist John Lodge found another gear with a Fender double-neck that was half P-Bass/half Telecaster - Guitar World
- How experts uncovered The Who's guitar was also used by Queen - BBC
- It’s a kind of magic: Wood grain analysis reveals bass guitar’s link to Queen - London Evening Standard
- Remembering Mani, by Gordon Moakes - The Quietus
- “I was almost throwing down a challenge with some of those basslines: play me if you can!” John Paul Jones’ best Led Zeppelin basslines – including an eight-string classic - Guitar World
- IK Multimedia Announces TONEX Plug for Guitar and Bass - Premier Guitar
- An argument over the sale of a bass guitar led to a domestic assault charge. - facebook.com
- Anthony Jackson, Master of the Electric Bass, Is Dead at 73 - The New York Times
New Music releases
- Looking Ahead: A Release Calendar of Upcoming Albums in 2026 - Billboard
- Ben&Ben to release new music this January - GMA Network
- The Best New Music Releases of December 2025 - Westword
- New album releases 2026: Dates for Gorillaz, Robbie Williams, Leigh-Anne and more - Official Charts
- BTS confirm return as full group, new album release date and world tour - NME
- Pittsburgh local music releases for January 2026 - TribLIVE.com
- BTS Announces the Exact Date of Their Comeback This March - ELLE
- New Music On The Horizon: First Half Of 2026 Album Releases Define A Diverse Year In Sound - Noise11.com
- Elton John Reveals Exciting News About Plans to Release New Music in 2026; “Step Into Christmas” Reaches New Peak on UK Singles Chart - American Songwriter
- Simon Cowell's boy band December 10 release their first-ever music video - Capital UK
- Jessica Simpson Celebrates ‘Sold Out’ Music Release: ‘My Heart is So Full’ - Parade
- Which New Music Release of the Week Is Your Favorite? Vote! - Billboard
- New Music Friday: Sam Fender, JADE, Kylie Minogue, Olivia Rodrigo and more - Official Charts
- A&E’s best music releases of 2025 - ramaponews.com
- GUNS N' ROSES Release Two New Singles, 'Nothin'' And 'Atlas' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- New Music Releases December - Folio Weekly
- The best new holiday music releases for 2025 - AP News
- Which New Music Release Is Your Favorite This Week? Vote! - Billboard
- New Music Friday: YUNGBLUD & Aerosmith, The Beatles, Olly Murs and more - Official Charts
- Kelsea Ballerini Opens Up About Surprising Favorite Part of New Music Release - Parade
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