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- All that jazz… - cambridgenews.nz
- “Those first two days, we got along like brothers. Then it was like, ‘This isn’t happening.’” Nile Rodgers gave John Mayer “the most underrated rock and roll album of all time.” Days later, their collaboration fell apart - Guitar Player
- SEPULTURA's ANDREAS KISSER: 'JUDAS PRIEST Was The Band' That Taught Me How To Play Heavy Metal Guitar - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- “I hate the fact that I’m ever even slightly compared to them.” Pete Townshend on rivals, regrets — and what he really thought of Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin - Guitar Player
- How Keith Richards Saved This Rolling Stones Track From an Engineer’s Potentially Disastrous “Total Incompetence” - American Songwriter
- “It made me feel like, ‘Wow, is that how people perceive me?’” Eddie Van Halen on the one guitarist he said out–Van Halened him - Guitar Player
- DETHKLOK Guitarist NILI BROSH Announces New Solo Album 'Eventide' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- "He walked into my bedroom, and he says, Darling, I think this is a hit." How a disco legend and a hotshot Texan blues guitarist helped resurrect David Bowie's career - Louder
- Converge’s Kurt Ballou on mixing pedals with amp modelers, guitar recording hacks and reclaiming metal’s authenticity - Yahoo
- “I love the sound of acoustics and electrics, which is why I try to merge the two… I prefer bigger textures”: How Pavey Ark are reinventing acoustic guitar with pedals, fake nails and a $60 nylon-string that holds its own in any company - Guitar World
- Grammy Award winning guitarist to visit Parr Hall - Warrington Worldwide
- “Randy was trying to get backstage to meet him, but Eddie was bouncing off the walls in his underwear.” Kelly Garni sets the record straight on the rivalry between Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen - Guitar Player
- “Jeff recorded things that are in my vault. It’s an album’s worth of stuff.” Jeff Beck drummer Narada Michael Walden reveals the guitarist left behind a previously unknown trove of tracks - Guitar Player
- Beech Grove Officer Brian Elliott was honors graduate and bass guitar player - IndyStar
- “Gene and Paul came back to the studio with their jaws on the floor. Gene said, ‘No-one has ever turned down Kiss’“: The glam-rock guitarist who accidentally turned down Kiss - Guitar World
- Legendary guitarist who has played at iconic venues coming to Parr Hall - Warrington Guardian
- “The radio interference was so significant. There was nothing we could do.” Julian Lage says noise from cellphone towers made recording his guitars impossible. Just by luck, he had a fix - Guitar Player
- “I cut my finger and got blood on the fretboard. It felt like the guitar had chosen me”: Deftones are fans. Wet Leg invited them on tour. Meet Mary in the Junkyard, the classically rooted alt-rockers making mind-bending indie with Elliott Smith’s tunings - Guitar World
- “He was a guy in my neighbourhood who played... I was scared to say it at the time, but he played at the level of John McLaughlin!”: Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid pays tribute to a lost genius - MusicRadar
- “I talked about the very first thing I learned on guitar, and he said, ‘That's exactly what I learned first!’” Roger McGuinn on jamming with George Harrison, teaching Mike Bloomfield and confusing Bob Dylan - Guitar Player
- “Albert King took me aside. He said, ‘The biggest thing about music is you can’t play what people want you to play.’ My dad said that, too”: Bernard Allison grew up surrounded by blues legends – and hid the fact he was learning guitar for years - Guitar World
- Steel guitarist Pete Finney – who performed with Vince Gill, Reba McEntire and the Monkees – dies aged 70 - Yahoo
- Jerry Kennedy, Who Helped Define Music in Nashville, Dies at 85 - The New York Times - The New York Times
- “Even if no-one’s applauding, this is still going”: Mark Speer was so afraid the audience wouldn’t applaud at early Khruangbin shows, he figured out how to do it on guitar - Guitar World
- “As soon as he saw ABBA, all in matching white fur coats, he went running over. Then he vomited.” John Lydon on the Sex Pistols’ obsession with Sweden’s purveyors of pop - Guitar Player
- I’ve looked at all 474 musical instrument deals in the Amazon Presidents’ Day sale, and these are the 6 every guitarist needs to look at - MusicRadar
- I didn’t think the Amazon Presidents’ Day sale would be any good for guitarists, but I’m happy to admit I’m wrong – here's 6 stellar savings on great guitar gear, including Boss, Fender, D'Addario, and more - Guitar World
- “Classical guitarists are at war with the guitar. They want to be part of the greater tradition like violin and piano. They want it to be more than it is”: How classical-schooled Derek Gripper rehabilitated himself with 21-string West African technique - Guitar World
- These are the 5 guitar sales that get our vote this Presidents' Day – score up to 60% off a whole host of guitars, amps, pedals and accessories - Guitar World
- “I would never have played bass without him, and without him I would never have been in a rock band. He taught me so much”: Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea remembers the band’s original guitarist Hillel Slovak - MusicRadar
- “It was not possible to get a left-handed Jazzmaster in this country. Fender told me, ‘You might as well be ringing Ibanez – we just don’t make them’”: Mike Vennart on the Squier Strats that are simply unbeatable – and why he hates acoustics - Guitar World
- “Wiped the whole hand out. The end of this thumb was off. The fingers were just danglin’, hangin’ off.” The King of Rockabilly on the gruesome onstage accident that nearly ended his career — and his life - Guitar Player
- “There are babes jumping up and down. I’m going, ‘That guy's copping my song.’ And then I realized it was me!” Bonnie Raitt on learning her guitar work was the theme for the hit TV show ‘Baywatch’ - Guitar Player
- NAMM 2026: news, rumors, predictions - Guitar World
- Ralph Towner, Eclectic Guitarist With the Ensemble Oregon, Dies at 85 - The New York Times
- Bob Weir, Guitarist and Founding Member of The Grateful Dead, Dies at 78 - The New York Times - The New York Times
- SYSTEM OF A DOWN's DARON MALAKIAN: How I Ended Up Playing Guitar For METALLICA For A Couple Of Shows In 2000 - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- Beverly Guitar Watkins Obituary (2019) - Harrisburg, PA - PennLive.com
- WOLFGANG VAN HALEN: 'I Think My Dad Is An Incredibly Underrated Rhythm Guitar Player And Songwriter' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- “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” - 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
- "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 - Guitar Player
- “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, masterful guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T and the M.G.'s, has died at age 84 - PBS
- George Harrison on the greatest guitar solo of all time - Guitar Player
- 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
- “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
- GEORGE LYNCH Says ACE FREHLEY Wasn't An Influence On His Guitar Playing: 'And I Feel Bad Saying That' After 'He Just Died' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- “The Beatles had broken up and I was thinking, ‘What do I do now?’” What to expect from the “unprecedented” Paul McCartney documentary that's just been announced - Guitar Player
- 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
- Best online guitar lessons: Improve your playing - MusicRadar
- 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
- “Jimmy Page would be nice to have on there”: Dweezil Zappa has already tapped Eddie Van Halen, Brian May and Yngwie Malmsteen for his ambitious instrumental project – but wants to recruit a few more guitar greats before it’s finished - Guitar World
- 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’s one of the greatest there is, not just in blues but anything. He’s an alien.” Samantha Fish names the five guitar players she says will keep the blues alive - Guitar Player
- “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 - Guitar Player
- Maggie Baugh: What to know about Keith Urban's guitar player - Fox News
- “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
- “I suppose I didn't really want to be in a band”: The late Terry Reid explains why he turned down Jimmy Page's offer to front Led Zeppelin in final interview – but reveals the other guitar icon he nearly said yes to - Guitar.com
- “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
- Meet eleven-year-old guitar prodigy Olly Pearson - Boing Boing
- 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
- Henley air guitar player gears up for world championships - BBC
- “We were mixing ‘Frampton Comes Alive!’ and they just kept on coming in and borrowing all sorts of different stuff!” Peter Frampton says Ace Frehley and Paul Stanley used his guitars on Kiss’s smash 1975 live album - Guitar Player
- 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
- “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
- JOE BONAMASSA Praises OZZY OSBOURNE's Guitarists: 'He Always Required Someone That Was Forward-Thinking And Hungry' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- “I'm so sorry I couldn't spend more time with you”: Jake E. Lee shares the last text he received from Ozzy Osbourne - Guitar.com
- The time Robert Fripp claimed Jimi Hendrix “wasn’t a guitarist” and that Eric Clapton was “mostly quite banal” - Guitar.com
- “The director said, ‘Fine, why don’t you just mime in that case?’ So we did – and air guitar was born”: Have the origins of air guitar finally been found? Unearthed footage contests the Joe Cocker at Woodstock ’69 theory - Guitar World
- Tower of Power Bass-Guitar Player Shares His Story - independentnews.com
- The '70s rock guitarist The Kinks' Dave Davies calls the “great and underrated guitar player of the time” - Guitar.com
- “Oz said, ‘Let’s just do Free Bird twice. That should take up an hour!’” Zakk Wylde on Tony Iommi’s genius, Black Sabbath’s immeasurable influence – and Ozzy’s unlikely Back to the Beginning demands - Guitar World
- Joe Satriani struggles with being “extroverted” on stage: “I don’t think I ever feel like myself” - Guitar.com
- Video 10-year-old guitar-playing prodigy rocks on - ABC News
- “There's a great picture of Eddie, Pat Thrall, and myself backstage. Oh man, we look awesome. Three guitar players, just 24 years old”: Pat Travers recalls the best show he ever played – with Aerosmith, AC/DC, and Van Halen all on the same bill - Guitar World
- KIRK HAMMETT Says His Guitar Playing On METALLICA's 'Black Album' Was 'Spot On': 'Those Solos Wrote Themselves' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- MARTY FRIEDMAN Explains Why Technical Guitar Players Don’t Necessarily Impress Him: “They Have to Come Up with Something Musically That Interests Me” - Sonic Perspectives
- MARTY FRIEDMAN Has Nothing Against 'Flashy' Guitar Playing: 'I Just Wanna Be Excited By What I Hear' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- Metallica’s Kirk Hammett thinks he “should be a lot better” at playing the guitar - Guitar.com
- “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
- “The hotshot guitar player at our gig said, ‘Your guitar sounds terrible. You should leave that thing on.’ So I turned on the Big Muff…” How a heckler helped J Mascis unlock his Dinosaur Jr. guitar tone - Guitar World
- RUSH's ALEX LIFESON: 'I'm Just A Guy Who Loves Playing Guitar' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- LAMB OF GOD's MARK MORTON: 'I Have Never Completely Defined Myself As Just A Heavy Metal Guitar Player' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- “It’s a special kind of moment when you hit that first note of a solo and you literally get nothing.” He’s played with David Bowie and the Cure, but Reeves Gabrels says things don’t always go right, even for the pros - Guitar Player
- “If you’re youngish, cute-ish and can play that axe, you’re for me”: Chaka Khan is holding open auditions to find a new guitar player – but she’s got some very specific requirements - Guitar World
- “I’m as serious as a heart attack”: Mastodon are looking for their next guitar player – and they have a very specific list of requirements - Louder
- DON AIREY: 'Guitar Players Are Very Strange People; They're Very Insecure' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
- “I’m as serious as a heart attack with Mastodon. I’m not ready to give it up yet. So, we’re going to keep looking”: Bill Kelliher is searching far and wide for Mastodon's next guitarist – here's what the band are looking for - Guitar World
- Sue Foley is celebrating the trailblazing women of guitar — past and present - Deseret News
- "I placed the DeArmond pickup near the bridge. I put a crushed cigarette packet underneath it. That helped to get that round sound.” Vic Flick, guitarist behind the iconic James Bond theme, has died. Read our historic interview with him - Guitar Player
Guitar Amp News
- "There’s clarity where you want it, and a glorious wall of noise when you need it": Laney Black Country Customs Billy Corgan Supergrace Loudpedal review - Guitar World
- “The best-sounding, most powerful, and most flexible processing Line 6 has ever offered”: Line 6’s Helix Stadium Floor is finally shipping – 8 months after it was first unveiled - Guitar World
- “I wandered into a Guitar Center vintage room, plugged it in and it just floored me. People literally started coming in asking what amp I was playing”: Inside Fender’s mission to bring the ’62 Super Amp back from the dead - Guitar World
- With over $1,000 off PRS Core guitars and amps, I think I just found the most tempting sale around this Presidents' Day - Guitar World
- Best guitar amp headphones 2026: My top picks for practicing your guitar quietly - MusicRadar
- 10 things we learned at NAMM 2026 - 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
- 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
- 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
- “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
- Magnatone Introduces Four New Amps At NAMM - 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
- Gear Radar: 7 Fresh Finds for Your Rig - Premier Guitar
- Bad Cat Amplifiers Introduces Hot Cat 50 Amplifier - Premier Guitar
- “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
- 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
- “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
- “Gives you the keys to a studio full of classic tube amps, speaker cabs, stompboxes, and effects”: Universal Audio’s amp-emulating pedals have been a huge success – now they’ve arrived in plugin form via the all-inclusive Paradise Guitar Studio - Guitar World
- “The first truly great portable electric guitar amp” is on sale for Black Friday - Guitar.com
- VOX Introduces the Micro Superbeetle Guitar Amp - Premier Guitar
- “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
- GPX Blog - IK Multimedia throws its hat in the ring for Plugin Headphone Amps, with its TONEX PLUG - Guitar Pedal X
- 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
- Local Guitar Amp Designers Keep Those Vacuum Tubes Aglow - Racket MN
- “You have to be prepared to spend hours and hours and hours programming”: Joe Bonamassa on why you’ll never catch him playing an amp modeler - 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
- “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
- “It possesses the horsepower to remain clean, even at the loudest volumes, and handles – and delivers – the highest dynamic content from your picking hand”: Mesa/Boogie reissues a cult classic that takes the amp brand back to the beginning - MusicRadar
- “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
- “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
- MyTBtickets Calendar - Tampa Bay Times
- “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
- “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
- 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 Studio app takes the best feature from our favourite guitar amps - Trusted Reviews
- Thomann has acquired Hughes & Kettner - 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
- 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
- The Five Best Value Solid-State Amps: Portable, Powerful, and Affordable - Gearnews.com
- News - Wampler Pedals Capsule Collection - Guitar Pedal X
- “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
- "None of these other big bands are using these new fangled things” James Hetfield's guitar tech explains how he got the Metallica riff king to switch to modelling amps - Guitar.com
- News - The Boss Katana : GO - Personal Guitar Amplifier / Headphone Amp is Back! - Guitar Pedal X
- 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
- NAMM 2025 Live: The biggest product launches, plus photos from the show floor… - Guitar.com
- NAMM 2025 rumors, predictions and breaking news - Guitar World
- Chapman Guitars announces restructuring, teases its first-ever amp - Guitar.com
- ‘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
- 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
- “Faster, smarter and more accurate than any human”: Neural DSP unveils TINA – a robot that promises to revolutionize the digital amp modeling world forever - Guitar World
- Guitar Center employees find thousands of dollars in drugs stuffed inside guitar amp - WSB-TV
- “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
- "I think the speakers in your amplifier have the largest single impact on guitar tone": This guitarist seeks to proves it - MusicRadar
- 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
- The Week In Guitar: Spinal Tap’s coming back, and Alex Lifeson launches new amps - Guitar.com
- Daniel Hooper's Hoopla Pedals Tinnitus Preamp / Overdrive is a really cool take on the MESA/Boogie Mark Five Amp - Guitar Pedal X
- News - 2023 April Pedal-Chain Update - Episode IV - Future Past Perfect - Guitar Pedal X
- 16 of the Most Iconic Electric Guitar Amps - Guitar Pedal X
- NAMM 2023 news: all the latest guitar news, rumors and predictions - Guitar World
- 9 cool pairs of Vox-in-a-Box and Marshall Plexi style Pedals which have, or are about to fill slots #17 and #18 - Guitar Pedal X
- Tom Bukovac on his favourite guitar amp of all time and why the 100-watt version is better than a 50-watt - MusicRadar
- Mike Soldano finally delivers his legendary SLO-100 Amp in pedal format - as the Super Lead Overdrive / Preamp - Guitar Pedal X
- 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
- Hear: Our five favourite new guitar amps of NAMM 2020 - MusicRadar
- Four best guitar amps of NAMM 2020 - Guitar.com
- 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
- News - The Perfect Guitar Amp Design / Next Level Boss Katana - Guitar Pedal X
- Aberdeen man makes and sells guitar amps - aberdeennews.com
- News - Ultimate Guitar Amps - A Personal Selection - Guitar Pedal X
- News - 12 Great Guitar Combo Amps for your Consideration - Guitar Pedal X
Bass Player News
- Campaign launched for mural of Stone Roses legend Mani in Failsworth - Oldham Times
- Day in the Life: Session Bassist Todd Ashburn - YES! Weekly
- “We’ve been writing music together”: The Red Hot Chili Peppers are working on their next project, Flea says – and they’re recording at John Frusciante’s house - Guitar World
- “My main memory is thinking if I stood still for too long, I’d get hit with a beer can”: Thundercat on getting his start with hardcore punk legends Suicidal Tendencies – and how that developed his bass chops - Guitar World
- Beak> bassist Billy Fuller announces debut solo album, Fragments - The Line of Best Fit
- Windermere Preparatory Academy's Brandon Bass Jr. named Class 3A Player of the Year - West Orange Times Observer
- A New Big Muff For Bassists - Sonicstate
- “Randy was trying to get backstage to meet him, but Eddie was bouncing off the walls in his underwear.” Kelly Garni sets the record straight on the rivalry between Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen - Guitar Player
- Electro-Harmonix Unearths the Bass Big Muff Pi 2 - Premier Guitar
- Beech Grove Officer Brian Elliott was honors graduate and bass guitar player - IndyStar
- Man arrested for fatal crash that killed Royal Canoe bassist - Winnipeg Free Press
- “I thought my computer actually broke”: Bass phenom Kinga Głyk recalls the moment her rendition of an Eric Clapton classic went viral – and made her career - Guitar World
- “I did tours sleeping in a tent to save money. I asked this family if I could pitch up in their garden. That helped me get my first P-Bass”: Rock ’n’ roll's ‘Forrest Gump’ Leo Lyons shares the story of Ten Years After and their iconic Woodstock set - Guitar World
- “I would never have played bass without him, and without him I would never have been in a rock band. He taught me so much”: Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea remembers the band’s original guitarist Hillel Slovak - MusicRadar
- “David shook my hand and said, ‘Here’s the song I want to do.’ It was Golden Years. I was auditioning during the making of the album”: Bassist George Murray’s six-year stint with David Bowie - Guitar World
- “Tal came over and said, ‘Sting, it doesn’t quite go the way you’re playing it…’” When Tal Wilkenfeld taught Sting the correct way to play an Aerosmith classic - Guitar World
- “He is the funkiest bass player that ever lived. Every note a mighty oak, a bull elephant, a bomb”: William ‘Billy Bass’ Nelson, Funkadelic bassist who coined the band’s name, dies aged 75 - Guitar World
- “The music meant a lot to me even before I was playing those iconic basslines”: Bassist Simone Marie Butler announces her departure from Primal Scream - Guitar World
- Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus: ‘Bass players are just cool. We’re the one that brings it all together’ - The Guardian
- Johnny Marr reveals “mind-blowing” experience of playing with Paul McCartney – and the unique thing that sets him apart from other bass players - Guitar.com
Bass Amp News
- Mayor Karen Bass says LA28 head Wasserman should step down - Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles Times
- Blackstar and Marco Mendoza team up for signature bass practice amp - Mixdown Magazine
- Electronic Audio Experiments' Traynor Bass Amp derived Greathammer Overdrive delivers 50 decibels of killer low-end tone - Guitar Pedal X
- 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
- NAMM 2026: The Best New Product News & Announcements - Reverb
- 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
- Respected Bass Amp Tone In Software - Sonicstate
- Blackstar Debut Bass: 2 New Bass Practice Amps - Gearnews.com
- “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
- Empress Effects releases dedicated Bass ParaEQ MKII with additional smart detection features - Guitar Pedal X
- Bergantino Audio Announces the HP Ultra 2000W Bass Amplifier - Premier Guitar
Guitar Effects News
- JHS Pedals Launches Morning Glory Clean Overdrive - Premier Guitar
- "There’s clarity where you want it, and a glorious wall of noise when you need it": Laney Black Country Customs Billy Corgan Supergrace Loudpedal review - Guitar World
- Shnobel Tone Unveils Dumbbell Drive OD/Boost Pedal - Premier Guitar
- “The best-sounding, most powerful, and most flexible processing Line 6 has ever offered”: Line 6’s Helix Stadium Floor is finally shipping – 8 months after it was first unveiled - Guitar World
- Could the Line 6 Helix Stadium Floor be a serious rival to the Quad Cortex? An 8” touchscreen, all-new AI-driven modelling tech and the capability to automate your live show gives it a fighting chance - MusicRadar
- “You can have a great amp but if the speaker sucks it won’t sound good”: Sylosis' Josh Middleton on the most important link in your signal chain – and how a remarkable find from Adam ‘Nolly’ Getgood helped him nail Andy Sneap’s tone - MusicRadar
- Decades Pedals unleashes great first release - the potent OpAmp + Transistors MultiJam Overdrive & Distortion - Guitar Pedal X
- 4 Classic Rock Songs From 1967 That Are Defined by Their Iconic Guitar Riffs - American Songwriter
- Video FX through Guitar Pedals - Sonicstate
- Manson Guitar Works finally deliver limited editions of Matt Bellamy's favourite and fully-loaded 007 'Blackie' Guitar - in New Era Standard and Relic Editions, alongside the Signature Exact Recreation Edition - Guitar Pedal X
- Hylight UK Unveils Custom SD 2x12” Combo Amp - Premier Guitar
- "A triumphant first all-analog pedal from Strymon, which will inject your rig with some impressively usable and versatile drive tones": Strymon Fairfax Class A Output Stage Drive pedal review - Guitar World
- "The tones may not quite be best of the lot, but it's comfortably the easiest and most enjoyable modeller to use": Line 6 Helix Stadium XL review - MusicRadar
- Electro-Harmonix Unearths the Bass Big Muff Pi 2 - Premier Guitar
- Drunk Beaver's Pedal Drop #36 the Chernihiv Sonic Distortion is a cool evolved take on the Maxon / Ibanez SD-9 - Guitar Pedal X
- The 4 latest DanDrive Pedals are available at the lead and original Dealer for that brand - Stockholm's These Go To 11 - Guitar Pedal X
- EBS RUNSTEN Multi DC Isolated Pedal Power Supply - Bass Gear Magazine
- These are the 5 guitar sales that get our vote this Presidents' Day – score up to 60% off a whole host of guitars, amps, pedals and accessories - Guitar World
- JHS Morning Glory V4 Overdrive Pedal – Transparent Guitar Effects Pedal With Bright Cut Switch - umlconnector.com
- “I saw these at Guitar Summit last year and came away with one thought: this might be the guitar of my dreams”: All the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including a long-awaited Lamb of God Les Paul - Guitar World
Guitar and Bass News
- "There’s clarity where you want it, and a glorious wall of noise when you need it": Laney Black Country Customs Billy Corgan Supergrace Loudpedal review - Guitar World
- Cort Guitars Introduces The GB Short Scale Bass Series - Bass Magazine
- Rig Rundown: Spiritbox - Premier Guitar
- “I had a poster on my wall of B.B. King playing Lucille. I always wanted one of those guitars”: Gary Clark Jr. comes full circle with a new signature Gibson ES-355 that pays homage to his hero - Guitar World
- “My main memory is thinking if I stood still for too long, I’d get hit with a beer can”: Thundercat on getting his start with hardcore punk legends Suicidal Tendencies – and how that developed his bass chops - Guitar World
- “It made me feel like, ‘Wow, is that how people perceive me?’” Eddie Van Halen on the one guitarist he said out–Van Halened him - Guitar Player
- “I wandered into a Guitar Center vintage room, plugged it in and it just floored me. People literally started coming in asking what amp I was playing”: Inside Fender’s mission to bring the ’62 Super Amp back from the dead - Guitar World
- Electro-Harmonix Unearths the Bass Big Muff Pi 2 - Premier Guitar
- “I cut my finger and got blood on the fretboard. It felt like the guitar had chosen me”: Deftones are fans. Wet Leg invited them on tour. Meet Mary in the Junkyard, the classically rooted alt-rockers making mind-bending indie with Elliott Smith’s tunings - Guitar World
- “I got to design a guitar that gave me exactly what I was looking for in contrast to my Strats”: How Cory Wong embraced humbuckers to reimagine Ernie Ball Music Man’s iconic bass for a signature electric with “that George Benson sound” - MusicRadar
- “My only frustrations are with its unstable tuning, which dampens an otherwise fantastic playing experience”: Cort Space G6TR review - Guitar World
- “I thought my computer actually broke”: Bass phenom Kinga Głyk recalls the moment her rendition of an Eric Clapton classic went viral – and made her career - Guitar World
- “I did tours sleeping in a tent to save money. I asked this family if I could pitch up in their garden. That helped me get my first P-Bass”: Rock ’n’ roll's ‘Forrest Gump’ Leo Lyons shares the story of Ten Years After and their iconic Woodstock set - Guitar World
- “I would never have played bass without him, and without him I would never have been in a rock band. He taught me so much”: Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea remembers the band’s original guitarist Hillel Slovak - MusicRadar
- 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
- “Bass players are the glue – we’re the one that brings it all together”: Blink-182's Mark Hoppus names his three (or four) favourite bassists - MusicRadar
- Bass guitarists to step into the spotlight for new concert series - The Columbus Dispatch
- In pictures: check out the most stunning new Fender Custom Shop guitars of 2026 - Guitar.com
- Ernie Ball Music Man Celebrates 50 Years of the Stingray Bass & More! - Premier Guitar
New Music releases
- Poison The Well, Moodring, The Gloom In The Corner And PRESIDENT Heavy Rotation - Blunt Magazine
- Bono lambasts ICE, Putin, Netanyahu and more as U2 release first collection of new songs since 2017 - The Guardian
- U2's New Music Honors Renee Good and Draws Inspiration From World Events - U.S. News & World Report
- Drake Bell releases new music - PIX11
- Drake Bell releases new music - PIX11
- Bastardane are teasing new music to be released soon - Chaoszine
- BASTARDANE (James Hetfield's son) have new music they plan to release "soon" - Lambgoat
- IP Strategy Issues Statement on Aria’s Frontline K-Pop Release with RESCENE, Highlighting AI-Native Music Ownership on Story - The Manila Times
- Unleash your emotions with these new music releases from local artists - STLPR
- Suga Teases Fans Will See a ‘More Mature Side of BTS’ on ‘ARIRANG’ - ELLE
- New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2026 - Pitchfork
- 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
- Harry Styles to release new single 'Aperture' this week - Yahoo
- 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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