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- Stef Carpenter’s Private Stock - Premier Guitar
- 'It Fell Apart Like Jenga' - Reb Beach Reflects on Whitesnake's 'Terrible' Final Tour - Ultimate Classic Rock
- “There’s a couple of songs on the record where I thought, ‘Gosh, I’m soloing so much. Please be quiet. Let it breathe’”: He played for pop A-listers, now he's transformed himself into one of instrumental guitar's leading voices - Guitar World
- “I got up on stage and my guitar tech goes, ‘Slash wanted me to give you this.’ It was the ’59. It was dead silent in the room”: Joe Perry on the painful memory of selling his ’Burst – and why he’ll never forget the moment it came back to him - Guitar World
- “If they want to do it justice, they should finish it up as a great instrumental nod to Eddie.” As singer Paul Rodgers rejects Van Halen album offer, bassist Michael Anthony says the music should remain as it is - GuitarPlayer.com
- “He picks it up, hits the corner of a stone table and puts a huge ding in it”: When Jeff Beck damaged an impossibly rare vintage Stratocaster – while he and Dweezil Zappa were at a party dressed as knights - Guitar World
- REB BEACH Talks End Of WHITESNAKE, Future Of WINGER And What's Next: 'I'd Just Like To Play Guitar' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- "He seemed like the coolest man on the planet": Johnny Marr on George Harrison - UNCUT
- “It took me forever to commit. Once I got there, I went, ‘I should have been doing this for a very long time’”: Joel Hoekstra was late to the Les Paul party – now he’s making up for lost time - Guitar World
- “Very accomplished playing that isn’t widely discussed in blues circles”: What we can learn from Mike Oldfield about breaking free of the pentatonic box - Guitar World
- Carvin Jones Band - wyomingnewsnow.tv
- “I was two years out of college, bought it and just felt like, ‘Oh, this is what it’s supposed to sound like.’ It makes me sound better than I am”: Why the Fender Telecaster is Sheryl Crow's long-time guitar “sidekick” - Guitar World
- “I committed to poverty for that”: Whitesnake’s Joel Hoekstra says you have “a hole in your head” if you get into music for money - Guitar.com
- Guitarist from Canadian pop punk band loses two fingers in construction accident - Guitar.com
- ‘The guitar has been with me for 40 years’: Musician recovers rare left-handed guitar stolen 5 years ago in car theft - KMOV
- JOHN 5 – “I’m Always Recording New Songs” - BraveWords
- “I remember being completely seduced by the sound. That concert stayed with me.” The night Jimmy Page, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger discovered the blues - GuitarPlayer.com
- Remembering Indianapolis gospel songwriter and guitarist M.L. Allen Jr. - WFYI
- “The two of us had a similar upbringing. It’s a unique position – our dads are the biggest rock stars around”: Evan Stanley and Nick Simmons are making Kiss a rock ’n’ roll dynasty – just don't mistake their music for their fathers' - Guitar World
- “My advice is play the song. Can you find a part that is tailored to the music – with hooks that don’t get in the way?”: Cory Wong’s tips for better rhythm guitar playing – and why his favourite Vulfpeck chord is “a bit like tofu” - MusicRadar
- Former Live band members send Ed Kowalczyk cease and desist as Canadian tour begins - Toronto Sun
- “There are three notes that make the harmony weird, but if you don’t know that, it sounds great.” Warren Haynes reveals the imperfect secret behind the Allman Brothers Band’s guitar magic - GuitarPlayer.com
- “The guitar that started it all”: T-Bone Walker’s 1949 Gibson ES-5N is up for sale on Reverb for over $2M - Guitar.com
- Obituaries: Hit Songwriter Billy Steinberg, Streetheart Guitarist John Hannah, Festival Booker Randi Fratkin - Billboard Canada
- “Shrapnel hit his tent. The only surviving thing was a Martin D-28.” The guitar that defined Joni Mitchell’s greatest albums made it through the Vietnam war — then vanished without a trace - GuitarPlayer.com
- “Bobby was completely allergic to compliments… I loved that about him. Mostly, he just loved playing”: The life and legacy of Grateful Dead icon Bob Weir - Guitar World
- “I was going for Jag-Stang vibes”: How Spiritbox's Mike Stringer and Aristides channeled Kurt Cobain for one of modern metal’s most desirable signatures - Guitar World
- Watch: IRON MAIDEN's BRUCE DICKINSON Joins ADRIAN SMITH And RICHIE KOTZEN For 'Wasted Years' Performance In London - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- “Those old players had nothing to hide behind. Just their hands, their feel and the truth coming through the speakers”: 5 modern blues guitar heroes on the impossible task of imitating the blues greats - Guitar World
- LIVE updates as Foo Fighters fans swarm Manchester venue after surprise gig announcement - facebook.com
- “That’ll still smoke most rigs these days too, by the way”: Aaron Marshall of Intervals says the rig he played Blink-182 and Slipknot on as a teenager could more than hold its own today - Guitar World
- “I tried to talk him out of it... He was too good a writer to have that be his calling card”: The band's guitarist felt the song was beneath its writer, but it became one of the biggest singalong guitar-pop hits of the 2000s - Guitar World
- “I had a hard time choosing: Was I an actor or a musician, or could I be both?” Before the Oscar, before ‘The Big Lebowski,’ Jeff Bridges was ready to give his life to music. Then Hollywood intervened - GuitarPlayer.com
- “I just had decidedly hated Stratocasters, Les Pauls, any of the common instruments that you see everybody use”: How Jack White found his own voice by seeking out a different kind of guitar - Guitar World
- “We smoked a lot of pot together, so that was really helpful.” How Neil Diamond, a bag of weed and a twice-rejected song turned a pair of struggling young guitarists into global stars - GuitarPlayer.com
- “I was still in this wailing mode. I was a kid on a mission.” Robbie Robertson on Eric Clapton, the power of subtlety and his ‘Last Waltz’ bronzed Stratocaster - GuitarPlayer.com
- “I can sing. I’m not playing guitar right now; that’s going to have to come later.” Lucinda Williams on her post-stroke health and her new album’s “battle cry” for troubled times - GuitarPlayer.com
- Guitar played on Ghost Town up for auction - BBC
- “I have the greatest respect for classical and jazz musicians. Their musicality is far greater than mine. But my imagination and inventiveness, most probably, is far greater”: Steve Howe on overcoming stage fright and the tragic fate of his Gibson ES-175 - Guitar World
- “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
- Ralph Towner, Eclectic Guitarist With the Ensemble Oregon, Dies at 85 - The New York Times
- Carlos Santana thinks guitarists who play fast are no better than gym bros flexing their muscles: “Big deal, so what?” - Guitar.com
- Biffy Clyro touring guitarist says he “can't think of anything more boring” than playing acoustic guitar - 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
- SYSTEM OF A DOWN's DARON MALAKIAN: How I Ended Up Playing Guitar For METALLICA For A Couple Of Shows In 2000 - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- WOLFGANG VAN HALEN: 'I Think My Dad Is An Incredibly Underrated Rhythm Guitar Player And Songwriter' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- “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 - GuitarPlayer.com
- The Cure guitarist Perry Bamonte dies aged 65 - BBC
- “I don't think Jimi Hendrix was a guitarist. Eric Clapton is excessively tedious.” Robert Fripp on his 1960s contemporaries — and the guitarist whose playing he thought was “good fun” - GuitarPlayer.com
- “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
- “Noel said, ‘Ever been in a band with three guitars? We’ll let Bonehead do Bonehead, and we’ll fit around it’”: Noel Gallagher’s longtime right-hand man Gem Archer takes us inside the Oasis reunion – and how they negotiated their new three-guitar lineup - Guitar World
- “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
- "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 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
- 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
- Ed Sheeran is inspiring more people to play the guitar than The Beatles, according to a new study - 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 - GuitarPlayer.com
- “I left art behind. There was magic happening.” Pete Townshend thought the Who would last two weeks. This was the moment that changed his mind - GuitarPlayer.com
- 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 - GuitarPlayer.com
- “He screams across from the bar, ‘What you doing, boy! Put that guitar down. Nobody knows my tuning!’” Journey’s Neal Schon on that one time he tried Albert King’s mythical Gibson Flying V - Guitar World
- “I’ve held off. Ask me again next year and we’ll see.” Sonny Landreth on the one pedal he refuses to use — and his upcoming performance at GP Presents. Win tickets to see him - GuitarPlayer.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 founding guitarist Ace Frehley dies aged 74 - BBC
- Kiss Guitarist Ace Frehley Dead at 74 - Rolling Stone
- Ace Frehley, legendary Kiss guitarist, dies at 74 - NBC News
- “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 - GuitarPlayer.com
- Justin Hawkins thinks there’s one guitarist who could have rivalled Eddie Van Halen – if only he was born 10 years earlier - Guitar.com
- “He just blows everybody away”: Samantha Fish on who she thinks are the best modern blues guitar players right now - Guitar World
- “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
- Keith Urban’s guitarist Maggie Baugh misses concert as he shows Nicole Kidman photo during emotional slideshow - Fox News
- MARTY FRIEDMAN On Developing Your Own Style As A Guitarist: 'It's Very Important To Be Honest With Your Own Taste' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- “I had to learn to play electric guitar when I formed the Beach Boys with the guys. I had to go electric. It was like Dylan”: These two Beach Boys classics might have been misunderstood, but with Al Jardine’s guitar work, they stand the test of time - Guitar World
- Get more Guitar Player stories in your day with these two easy steps - GuitarPlayer.com
- Meet Enoch: A 10-year-old self-taught guitar player from Abilene - KTXS
- Legendary Steel Guitar Player Robby Turner Dead at 63 - Taste of Country
- “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
- “One of the greatest to ever do it”: Terry “Superlungs” Reid, the guitarist, singer, and songwriter who forged his own path after turning down Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, has died aged 75 - Guitar World
- Jimmie Vaughan Brings the Blues to Patchogue - fireislandnews.com
- “I used to get into terrible trouble with Dave by trying to add too much piano to what he laid down.” Ray Davies on the origins of the Kinks' “You Really Got Me” — and what guitarists get wrong about serving the song - GuitarPlayer.com
- "He caught a ball and some guy gave him a touch right into a curb.” Richie Sambora is recovering from a “gruesome” injury that required surgery to the former Bon Jovi guitarist's hand - GuitarPlayer.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
- 10-year-old guitar-playing prodigy rocks on - MSN
- “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 - GuitarPlayer.com
- 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 - GuitarPlayer.com
- MARTY FRIEDMAN Has Nothing Against 'Flashy' Guitar Playing: 'I Just Wanna Be Excited By What I Hear' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- Winner of Guitar Player Magazine International Competition to perform locally - timesobserver.com
Guitar Amp News
- “It feels like you’re plugged straight into an amp, rather than a pedal”: ThorpyFX x Lazy J The J review - Guitar World
- “Brian Wampler’s take on those fire-breathing amps that defined the sound of the 1980s”: Love hotrodded Plexi crunch and Mesa high-gain drive? Wampler’s Golden Jubilee serves up both in one sparkly green stompbox - MusicRadar
- “Its tonal quality is a match for boutique offerings from smaller high-end manufacturers”: PRS DGT 15 Combo review - Guitar World
- Best amp modelers 2026: get all your dream guitar tones in one - GuitarPlayer.com
- Best headphone amps for guitar 2026: silent practice solutions - 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
- “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
- 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
- “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
- Orange Amps OR60 UK-Built All-Valve Guitar Amp - Premier Guitar
- Flattley unveils its Joker Valve Tone FET Tube Emulator at NAMM - a beautifully dynamic and vibrant amp-like gain stage / saturator / overdrive and distortion with myriad uses - Guitar Pedal X
- “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
- REVV Amps makes Joey Landreth Signature DirtDog Overdrive based on his custom modded D25 JL REVV Signature Tube Amp - Guitar Pedal X
- “It might just be the coolest offset guitar ever. And it’s finally back”: All the guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including some huge early NAMM releases - 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
- 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
- Beyond Emulation: Amp Sims, AI, and the Coming Saturation Point - 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
- “The first truly great portable electric guitar amp” is on sale for Black Friday - Guitar.com
- “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
- GPX Blog - IK Multimedia throws its hat in the ring for Plugin Headphone Amps, with its TONEX PLUG - Guitar Pedal X
- Why Metallica Stopped Using Amps Live, According to James Hetfield’s Guitar Tech - Loudwire
- “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
- 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
- “Never did I actually expect to get the chance to see one up close, let alone play one”: Everything that caught my eye at Guitar Summit 2025 – from the grand unveiling of a brand-new guitar company to the year’s most anticipated amp modeler - 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
- 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
- “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
- Guitar Amp Legend Orange Amps Enters Vinyl Market with $1250 O Turntable - channelnews.com.au
- 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
- News - Dr. No's Moon Canyon ends production after 104 Mooncycles, with a final flurry of 15 units - 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
- News - Valeton issues a formidable challenger to the ToneX One with its GP-5 - Guitar Pedal X
- Fender Studio app takes the best feature from our favourite guitar amps - Trusted Reviews
- Best tube amps: my top tube amps for the ultimate guitar tone - GuitarPlayer.com
- Thomann has acquired Hughes & Kettner - Guitar World
- 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
- 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 Boss Katana : GO - Personal Guitar Amplifier / Headphone Amp is Back! - Guitar Pedal X
- 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
- Game-changers, trends, innovations, revivals and show-stoppers: the key guitars, amps and pedals of NAMM 2025 - MusicRadar
- NAMM 2025 rumors, predictions and breaking news - Guitar World
- NAMM 2025 Gallery: The Latest from the NAMM Show - Premier Guitar
- Marshall Announces New Products at NAMM 2025 - Premier Guitar
- Orange Announces Three New Portable Amps and the O Tone Combo Amp - Premier Guitar
- “A new take on a classic”: Marshall teases the release of a modded JCM, as a new era for the legendary amp brand beckons - Guitar World
- Boss Unveils New Gear for NAMM 2025 - Premier Guitar
- ‘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
- “We’re not even going to try to dabble in digital modeling. Everyone else can do it better”: Orange explains why it's not joining the amp modeling race - Guitar World
- 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
- Slash thinks recording a live guitar amp is a “dying art”: “A lot of producers don't even know how to do it properly” - Guitar.com
- “Like taking Madison Square Garden wherever you go – epic and versatile”: With 25 per cent more volume, double the processing power, AI and looper, Positive Grid’s Spark 2 ups the ante for practice-friendly digital guitar amps - MusicRadar
- News - A Brief Hobbyist Primer on Key Power Amp Tubes - Guitar Pedal X
- NAMM 2024: all the latest guitar news, rumors and predictions from the greatest gear show on Earth - Guitar World
- NAMM 2024 Live: Our top moments from the biggest gear show in the world - Guitar.com
- News - Another 25 Distinct and Notable Guitar Body Shapes - Guitar Pedal X
- 16 of the Most Iconic Electric Guitar Amps - Guitar Pedal X
- Mike Soldano finally delivers his legendary SLO-100 Amp in pedal format - as the Super Lead Overdrive / Preamp - Guitar Pedal X
- NAMM 2022 news: all the latest guitar news, rumors and predictions - Guitar World
- Russian sanctions result in a shortage of prized vacuum-tube guitar amps - marketplace.org
- An Expert Guide to Boutique Amps - Reverb
- The Best-Selling Pedals and Amps of 2021 - Reverb
- NAMM 2021: the biggest guitar, amp and pedal releases so far - Guitar World
- News - Boss GT-1000 CORE In-Depth Review and Long-term Impact Report - Guitar Pedal X
- News - Stone Deaf FX Releases Really Rather Useful QBoost Dual Boost - Guitar Pedal X
- Hear: Our five favourite new guitar amps of NAMM 2020 - MusicRadar
- Four best guitar amps of NAMM 2020 - Guitar.com
- News - Boss Moves Even Further Ahead with its New and Improved MKII Katana Amp Range - Guitar Pedal X
- The Perfect Compact Guitar Pedal Design - Take 2 - Guitar Pedal X
- Fender Unveils 4 More Bass and Guitar Amps for 2019 - Reverb
- News - What Two Years of Tone-Questing Looks Like - Acquisitions, Passes and Still Probables - Guitar Pedal X
- 2 Cool New Forthcoming Pedals - REVV Amps G3 and Flower Pedals Dandelion Harmonic Tremolo - 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
- Ultimate Guitar Amps - A Personal Selection - Guitar Pedal X
- News - 12 Great Guitar Combo Amps for your Consideration - Guitar Pedal X
Bass Player News
- On This Day in 2003, the World Lost the Legendary Bassist Who Played With Tom Petty and Bob Dylan and Produced Albums for John Prine - American Songwriter
- Secret Stone Roses tracks Mani recorded with band before his death 'in huge vault which could soon be opened' - The Irish Sun
- How bassist Andy Fraser electrified a Free classic with his less-is-more brand of fiery blues-rock - Yahoo
- Bass used on The Specials Ghost Town expected to fetch £20k at auction - Guitar.com
- Brid-based band L.O.C release debut single - The Scarborough News
- Grooving With Don Was and The Pan Detroit Ensemble - Grateful Web
- “My tech said, ‘This bass looks tiny on you.’ I lowered the strap so it would look cooler. You have to throw your whole body into it”: Bought from grunge icons and stolen before Soundgarden reunited – the story of Ben Shepherd’s 1972 Fender Jazz Bass - Guitar World
- Guitar played on Ghost Town up for auction - BBC
- NAMM 2026: The best new things in bass from the biggest music instrument event of the year - Guitar World
- Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus: ‘Bass players are just cool. We’re the one that brings it all together’ - The Guardian
- Former Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz dead at 71: ‘Our hearts are shattered’ - New York Post
- CANNIBAL CORPSE Bassist Alex Webster Featured on the cover of Bass Player Magazine - Metal Injection
- “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
- Höfner – maker of Paul McCartney’s iconic violin bass – files for bankruptcy - Guitar.com
- Biffy Clyro bass player quits tour over addiction and mental health issues - BBC
- Flea has announced his debut solo album – but he’s not the only bassist playing on it - Guitar World
- Discover the identity of Limp Bizkit’s new live bass player - Chaoszine
- Ian Lees, Bass Player for Moving Pictures, Has Died - Noise11.com
- Gary Mounfield, former Stone Roses bassist, has died at 63 - WTOP
- Gary 'Mani' Mounfield: Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist dies aged 63 - BBC
Bass Amp News
- Electronic Audio Experiments' Traynor Bass Amp derived Greathammer Overdrive delivers 50 decibels of killer low-end tone - Guitar Pedal X
- 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
- Respected Bass Amp Tone In Software - Sonicstate
- “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
- 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
- Warwick Unleashes The Gnome i Pro 600 V2: Improved, Light-Weight Bass Amp - Gearnews.com
- 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
- Bergantino Audio Announces the HP Ultra 2000W Bass Amplifier - Premier Guitar
- 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
Guitar Effects News
- "There's nothing quite like it": The singular genius of Laurie Spiegel's Music Mouse, with Eventide's Tony Agnello - MusicRadar
- “It feels like you’re plugged straight into an amp, rather than a pedal”: ThorpyFX x Lazy J The J review - Guitar World
- China's iStingor FX delivers the intriguingly monikered OD-1 Super OverDrive which looks very Boss-adjacent, but is actually quite a different circuit! - Guitar Pedal X
- Dazatronyx's Darren creates the ultimate Multi-Muff pedal with his killer comprehensive breadboarding style Big Fuzz Console - Guitar Pedal X
- Neural DSP Quad Cortex Mini review: “this is the most universal Quad Cortex yet” - Guitar.com
- Get over $75 off the 8/10-rated Fender Tone Master Pro at Sweetwater - Guitar.com
- TONECAT’s Home of Tone: a family of boutique pedals with personality - Mixdown Magazine
- Wampler Pedals Introduces the Golden Jubilee High-Gain Pedal - Premier Guitar
- Another great book on pedals has been released - Chris Cassone's Art of the Stompbox - with Foreword by Josh Scott - Guitar Pedal X
- “Brian Wampler’s take on those fire-breathing amps that defined the sound of the 1980s”: Love hotrodded Plexi crunch and Mesa high-gain drive? Wampler’s Golden Jubilee serves up both in one sparkly green stompbox - MusicRadar
- Tru-Fi Mini ’71 Colordriver review – an underrated classic of early fuzz is reborn… in miniature - Guitar.com
- Brian Wampler unleashes his best looking pedal to date - the Golden Jubilee 80's inspired Fiery Dual Channel Overdrive and Distortion - Guitar Pedal X
- Electro-Harmonix Bender Royale Review - Premier Guitar
- Why US music instrument makers are celebrating Trump's tariff defeat - Moneycontrol
- BzzzzKill Expands to Telecaster, Solving a Long-Standing Buzz Problem - Premier Guitar
- “This could be one of the biggest steps forward in passive pickup design in years”: All the guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including the most metal Jackson yet - Guitar World
- Aging With an Emperador - Premier Guitar
- Wampler Golden Jubilee: Hot-Rodded Dual Drive - Gearnews.com
- “Its tonal quality is a match for boutique offerings from smaller high-end manufacturers”: PRS DGT 15 Combo review - Guitar World
- Loop Performer 2026: This Gear is a Perfect Match - Gearnews.com
Guitar and Bass News
- “It took me forever to commit. Once I got there, I went, ‘I should have been doing this for a very long time’”: Joel Hoekstra was late to the Les Paul party – now he’s making up for lost time - Guitar World
- “I was two years out of college, bought it and just felt like, ‘Oh, this is what it’s supposed to sound like.’ It makes me sound better than I am”: Why the Fender Telecaster is Sheryl Crow's long-time guitar “sidekick” - Guitar World
- Elrick Bass Guitars, LTD Announces Relocation of Founder Rob Elrick to Valencia, Spain - Bass Gear Magazine
- “The guitar that started it all”: T-Bone Walker’s 1949 Gibson ES-5N is up for sale on Reverb for over $2M - Guitar.com
- 1970s hit-making bass guitar used on The Specials’ Ghost Town could fetch £20,000 at auction - Express & Star
- How bassist Andy Fraser electrified a Free classic with his less-is-more brand of fiery blues-rock - Yahoo
- “I was going for Jag-Stang vibes”: How Spiritbox's Mike Stringer and Aristides channeled Kurt Cobain for one of modern metal’s most desirable signatures - Guitar World
- Bass used on The Specials Ghost Town expected to fetch £20k at auction - Guitar.com
- “Those old players had nothing to hide behind. Just their hands, their feel and the truth coming through the speakers”: 5 modern blues guitar heroes on the impossible task of imitating the blues greats - Guitar World
- “That’ll still smoke most rigs these days too, by the way”: Aaron Marshall of Intervals says the rig he played Blink-182 and Slipknot on as a teenager could more than hold its own today - Guitar World
- BzzzzKill Expands to Telecaster, Solving a Long-Standing Buzz Problem - Premier Guitar
- “My tech said, ‘This bass looks tiny on you.’ I lowered the strap so it would look cooler. You have to throw your whole body into it”: Bought from grunge icons and stolen before Soundgarden reunited – the story of Ben Shepherd’s 1972 Fender Jazz Bass - Guitar World
- Guitar played on Ghost Town up for auction - BBC
- Electro-Harmonix Unearths the Bass Big Muff Pi 2 - Premier Guitar
- Best bass guitars 2026: long and short-scale bass options for beginners to pros - Guitar World
- NAMM 2026: The best new things in bass from the biggest music instrument event of the year - Guitar World
- Ernie Ball Music Man Celebrates 50 Years of the Stingray Bass & More! - Premier Guitar
- Best multi-effects pedals: Our pick of the best all-in-one guitar FX modellers - MusicRadar
- Cort Guitars Introduces the GB Short Scale Bass Series - Premier Guitar
- “A bass rig revolution in headphones”: Fender issues massive free update for the Mustang Micro Plus – and it’s the one bassists have been waiting for - Guitar World
New Music releases
- Bruno Mars and nine more new music releases you must hear this week - Cleveland.com
- New Music Monday: MIINA teases upcoming album release with new music video - Victoria Buzz
- Justin Radford Releases New Music Featuring Darlene McCoy - Black America Web
- New music on our radar this week: Chris Stussy, LOVEFOXY, Thundercat - Mixmag
- Hilary Duff, Baby Keem, Megan Moroney & More: Which Is Your Favorite New Music Release This Week? Vote! - Billboard
- New Music Friday: 11 new releases to help you get through the rest of February (20 Feb 2028) - Global News
- New album releases 2026: Dates for Harry Styles, Gorillaz, Leigh-Anne and more - Official Charts
- Looking Ahead: A Release Calendar of Upcoming Albums in 2026 - Billboard
- Suga Teases Fans Will See a ‘More Mature Side of BTS’ on ‘ARIRANG’ - ELLE
- New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2026 - Pitchfork
- New Music Friday: The Molotovs, MEEK, Labrinth and more - Official Charts
- Bebe Rexha is teasing Her New Music Release of Her Recently Achieved Independent Era - Daily Music Roll
- The Best New Music Releases This Week - Stanisland Magazine
- Harry Styles Revealed the Full Track List of His New Album - ELLE
- New Music Friday: Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Arctic Monkeys, MIKA, Jessie Ware and more - Official Charts
- Harry Styles Announces First Single From New Album: Here’s When ‘Aperture’ Arrives - Billboard
- New Music Friday: Robbie Williams, A$AP Rocky, Aaron Rowe, Madison Beer and more - Official Charts
- New Music Friday: 8 new releases for the middle of January (16 Jan 2026) - Global News
- Is Harry Styles releasing a new album? All the latest HS4 rumours - Capital UK
- Did Noah Kahan Just Give Us a Big Clue About His New Album's Release Date? - Holler Country
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