Larry Keel and Jon Stickley will independently release their eponymous debut EP in September. Keel and Stickley have been called two of the finest flatpicking guitarists of this generation, and with ...

Mark French is a Purdue engineering technology professor and head of the school's Guitar Lab. Noah Scott is a Purdue alum who is a guitar connoisseur, both building and playing. In late July, the two ...

The internet has long been awash with rumours that Mesa/Boogie built James Hetfield a signature guitar amp but it never saw a release – and the high-end amp brand's founder, Randall Smith, has ...

Phil X is developing a signature guitar with Gibson and has shared some spec details that suggest this could be a one of the most intriguing artist builds to come out of Nashville in recent years.

It was December 1949. King and his band were playing a juke joint in the small town of Twist, Ark., when two men got in a fight and knocked over a flaming garbage pail half-filled with kerosene, ...

Green, black, brown, blue… and now purple. It’s the latest colour of the rainbow to adorn the dustbins of Rushcliffe Borough – but it’s not without controversy. The 180-litre containers are being ...

Butler, Blake & Grant (ex-Suede guitarist Bernard Butler, Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub, and James Grant of Love And Money) play a short Irish tour this November. We asked them the BIG questions . .

For 50 years, the shop founded by Norman Harris has been cultivating creative ways to acquire rare instruments and loyal customers. By Steve Knopper During the filming of Norman’s Rare Guitars, the ...

Guitarist Slash calls it a place of legend, a 10 on the orgasmic music scale. Actor Jeff Daniels says it’s a pilgrimage and a Shangri-La oasis for guitar players. Actor and musician Kiefer Sutherland ...

In August 2000, when I was 2 years old, my mother put me in a maroon velvet dress and stuck foam earplugs in my ears. She carried me through the backstage corridors of the Santa Monica Civic ...