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“I was pretty concerned about the show. A few minutes later, we hear a knock… We answer the door to see Adam standing there”: Mike Sullivan of Russian Circles on the time Tool's Adam Jones saved him from rental amp hell with a random act of kindness

We've all been there, sweating with a borrowed backline that's not playing ball. Luckily, Sullivan had a guardian angel looking over him

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“He pulled out this D-28 and it sounded magical. It felt like this is the path I needed to be on. I committed to it completely”: How acoustic wizard John Smith went back to the future in search of acoustic transcendence

Celebrating 20 years as a pro musician, singer-songwriter John Smith reimagines personal and fan-favorite songs for his latest album – and changed his choice of acoustic in the process

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“A variety of tonal options for not much outlay”: Vintage Distortion, Chorus, Delay and Reverb pedals review

The UK-based Vintage brand enters the pedal market with a baker’s dozen of budget-friendly models

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“Boss has packed some serious muscle into a small box... For its price, it’s going to be very tough to beat”: Boss GX-1B review

Boss's GX range of multi-effects gets a bass-specific baby brother...

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“The one thing that’s making it very hard in the industry – at whatever level – is that there’s just too much choice”: Lee Anderton on guitarists' changing tastes, and why it’s not all doom and gloom for guitar stores

The owner (and Captain) of legendary UK gear retailer Andertons gives us reason for optimism that the brick-and-mortar guitar store has still got some life left

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"The build quality is outstanding, and the number of features gives younger and new players plenty to grow into": Boss GX-1 review

Boss' new entry-level multi-effects delivers pro-level features on a bedroom budget

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“John's got this toolkit of unwritten rock riffs. I wouldn't say that he’s out and out, AC/DC rock – but he could easily do it”: How John Mayer, Ed Sheeran and Dave Grohl channeled Eddie Van Halen on the F1 soundtrack

Mayer, Sheeran and all-star producer Blake Slatkin reveal what went down at the studio after they were approached to write a song for the F1 movie... and the EVH Easter eggs you might have missed

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“All I can tell you is what my father said to me: ‘Someone stole my guitar off the stage.’ Those were his exact words... he couldn’t find another guitar just like it”: T-Bone Walker and the guitar that gave birth to electric blues

The author of the newly released Electric Blues! T-Bone Walker & TheGuitar That Started It All, Tony Bacon, joins us to spotlight T-Bone’s personal contribution to the creation of this game-changing style

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“Randy thought, ‘It’s not going to be good.’ He was so worried about it”: Why Randy Rhoads had reservations about Ozzy’s Diary of a Madman

Rhoads’ sister once looked back on the making of Ozzy’s sophomore solo record – and recalled the virtuoso being uneasy with its quick turnaround time

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Fender forges surprise Samsung partnership to bring Fender Play to home TV screens for the first time

Now available as an app on Samsung TVs, the tuition service just got easier to access

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Why Sting just paid $800,000 to his former Police bandmates, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland

Summers and Copeland launched a legal case last year, claiming “historic underpayment” for their contributions to the Police's hits

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“I used it for two seasons and then it disappeared”: The story of the oddball Yamaha that Peter Capaldi played on Doctor Who – and its mysterious disappearance

Capaldi searched far and wide for a guitar that was suitable for the hit sci-fi show – and it featured in multiple episodes before it went missing

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“Pro-level features on a bedroom budget”: Boss moves to take control of the entry level amp modeler space with the $229 GX-1 – going up against Mooer, NUX and Zoom

The effects pedal giant looks to make the multi-effects modeler experience more intituitive than ever with an affordable price tag and fool-proof layout

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“Jimmy had his own viewpoint when he started working with Robert again. It meant having to dive much deeper into the Led Zeppelin catalog”: How Charlie Jones became the ‘other bassist’ to work with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page

He may have started in music by buying the wrong instrument, and thrown his Grammy certificate in the garbage without realizing it, but his eclectic attitude has made him a session star –and landed his dream gig with The Cult

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“You still have to pay for the actual gig. No bands got paid, and most of the crew donated their time”: Jack Osbourne sets the record straight on how much Back to the Beginning actually donated to charity

Initial reports suggested that Ozzy Osbourne's final show raised over $190 million for three charities

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“The guitar wasn't always user-friendly, and the old-school lights often became red hot, leading to burns”: The Smoker, the Rocket-Shooting Les Paul… The one with, like, a million lights – here are Ace Frehley’s 5 most iconic Kiss guitars

Because to be Spaceman in Kiss, a plain old blackguard Tele ain't gonna cut it

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“It's the most iconic guitar shop in the world, and we are honored to help extend its story into the future”: Norman’s Rare Guitars acquired

The acquisition includes the 1,000+ guitars currently housed at the store, along with proprietor Norman Harris’ personal and private collection

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“It needed a louder pickup. That’s where the idea came from”: Slash played a Gibson SG at Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell show – and now its purpose-built Seymour Duncan humbuckers have been released

The Slash 3.0 humbuckers are his first with Alnico V magnets, and they were developed by a pickup-making legend for his Back to the Beginning SG

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“Redefines the possibilities of delay effects”: Ibanez looks to shake up the world of high-end delays with the Layer Delayer – its most ambitious pedal yet

Ibanez has gone all out with the feature-packed delay powerhouse

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“It got nicked after a show in Leeds and went missing for years. Then I was reading an interview online and there, in the background, was the Mustang on the wall”: The story of the stolen Fender offset that unites three iconic indie rock bands

The Cribs' Ryan Jarman bought a ’78 Sunburst Mustang that helped shape the band's early sound – only for it to mysteriously end up in the hands of The 1975's Matty Healy and Beabadoobee nearly two decades later

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“The ultimate modern headless guitar”? Donner’s $330 ergonomic headless build seeks to undercut Strandberg and Ibanez

Boasting an HSS pickup configuration and an asymmetrical neck profile, the HLX-500 could be the new entry level headless guitar to beat

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“I thought it was a prank, so I didn’t answer!” She put a video of herself playing bass on YouTube. Then Prince called

Having caught the attention of Prince and Bootsy Collins, Alissia is riding a new wave of recognition with her debut single featuring Nile Rodgers and EarthGang

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John Mayer’s mystery Grateful Dead PRS Silver Sky became one of his most sought-after signatures – now it’s been officially released

Two new-look Silver Sky models headline PRS' new-for-2026 guitar drop – complete with a semi-hollow DGT and the all-new S2 Vela HHT

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“The Stratocaster has been around for 70 years and it’s perfect. Now we come along and say, ‘You’re wrong!’ They don’t like it”: True Temperament wants to disrupt an industry built on heritage, but do its necks actually fix the guitar’s biggest flaw?

Crooked frets, designed to solve the instrument’s biggest intonation issues, have won over some big-name players (even if they’re keeping quiet about it). Is it a revolution or just a fad?

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“Tools to name the weird and wonderful chords you may encounter on the fretboard”: Demystifying chord names, starting with a Hendrix and SRV favorite, the maj9

A little knowledge with naming conventions goes a long way to understanding complex chords and how they might sound

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