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- December 23
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- TC Electronic celebrates the 45th anniversary of its first-ever pedal with the Stereo Chorus Flanger Gold
- You can stream Metallica’s two 40th anniversary concerts for free for a limited time
- R.E.M.’s Peter Buck recalls how his beloved Rickenbacker Jetglo 360 was stolen in 2008, only to be returned by a Finnish biker gang
- Eric Clapton backs down on collecting legal fees from woman selling bootleg CD on eBay
- Poison Ivy: “It was easier for me to consider playing guitar because I was such a misfit. For me, anything was fair game”
- Diversify your playing with these 10 genre-hopping licks
- December 22
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- Lava Music unveils touchscreen-equipped carbon fiber smart guitar, the Lava Me 3
- Watch Steve Vai shred on a hollowbody in his new Little Pretty music video
- Watch Dave Navarro and Anthony Kiedis team up to cover Lou Reed’s Walk On the Wild Side
- Zakk Wylde reveals Ozzy Osbourne's I Don't Want to Change the World started life as a joke
- The 20 best guitar albums of 2021
- Cory Wong announces his most insane extra-musical event to date: Wong On Ice
- Carlos Santana: “I’ve always really loved B.B. King and Peter Green, and I wanted to combine that with Tito Puente and Mongo Santamaria”
- Robin Guthrie: “I’m not playing a guitar – I'm playing the sound, I'm playing the pedals, I'm playing the reverb”
- Samantha Fish: “Guitar playing is a puzzle you’ll never put together, but you find little things that make you happy, and they fuel the pursuit to get better”
- The Darkness's Dan Hawkins on his love for ABBA
- Best EQ pedals: must-have effects to tame your tone
- Save big on Tidal's HiFi and HiFi Plus services, and get 90 days of lossless streaming from as little as $1
- December 21
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- Dooms Children: “I had no interest in compartmentalising everything and smoothing out the edges”
- It sure seems like an SE version of John Mayer's PRS Silver Sky will be unveiled in January
- Nita Strauss explains why she doesn't own an acoustic guitar: “I don't find acoustic playing particularly fun”
- Watch Billy Corgan pay tribute to his father with a set of Christmas songs at his Chicago tea shop
- Eric Clapton writes new single, Heart of a Child, with fellow vaccine skeptic
- How to play the major scale on guitar
- Brian May tests positive for Covid, keeps playing guitar: “I want to show you that you can actually play after Covid”
- Kiss's Tommy Thayer: “My legacy will be a guy who came in, worked hard, and was the glue that kept the band together”
- Ruth Goller on her best bass albums
- The origins of Ibanez and the anatomy of Steve Vai's pioneering JEM
- Gibson's Cesar Gueikian joins Kirk Hammett's Wedding Band onstage in San Francisco, and the Metallica guitarist lets him play his iconic 1959 “Greeny” Les Paul
- John Mayer and Cory Wong swap signature guitars and trade licks in new studio jam session
- Perform at Expo Dubai 2020 and win a bespoke, handmade guitar with Lowden’s Take the Stage competition
- Win a TriceraChorus pedal from Eventide and stomp your way into a world of swirl
- December 20
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- Lari Basilio, Mark Lettieri, Ariel Posen and Tom Quayle headline Paul Davids' epic 10-guitarist solo collaboration
- The 10 best guitar riffs of 2021
- Best bass effects pedals: 10 of the best pedals for every type of bassist
- Watch Ruben Wan conjure awesome electric and acoustic tones from the PRS SE Hollowbody II Piezo guitar
- Gerard Way on rock music's resurgence: “People missed the sound of the guitar”
- Adrian Belew on how Eddie Van Halen advanced guitar playing "to the next level"
- How the Edge changed the sound of guitar playing forever: 17 guitarists share their favorite U2 moments
- The secrets behind Joan Jett’s guitar tone on I Love Rock ’N Roll
- Paul Gilbert gives us a track-by-track tour of his new Christmas album, ‘Twas
- Tony Iommi says he has “four or five hundred” unused riffs on his phone
- Metallica perform rare tracks and deep cuts during celebratory 40th anniversary shows
- February 2022 Guitar World lesson videos
- December 17
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- Pink Floyd surprise-release 12 live albums to streaming services
- Save up to $150 on a range of next-level guitar lessons in TrueFire’s biggest sale of the year
- Neural DSP teams up with John Petrucci for new Archetype: Petrucci plugin
- Watch Billy Gibbons, Joe Bonamassa cover Jimi Hendrix at Gibbons' 72nd birthday jam in Los Angeles
- Great Eastern FX Co. takes inspiration from the Fender Champ for its first-ever stompbox, the Small Speaker Overdrive
- The Beatles' 50 greatest guitar songs
- How to play the F chord on guitar
- Leonard “Hub” Hubbard, longtime bassist for the Roots, dies aged 62
- Marshall guitar amp heads: what you need to know
- Taurus adds the IR loader-equipped Stomp-Head 7.Apogee to its line of pedal amps
- Watch Paul Riario conjure a ‘new species of swirl’ with the Eventide TriceraChorus pedal
- Toni Cornell and Pete Thorn pay tribute to Chris Cornell with Nothing Compares 2 U performance on The Tonight Show
- Watch Tom Morello demonstrate just how close his MXR Power 50 Overdrive pedal gets to his trademark Marshall amp sound
- Thermion Zero Dynamic Hybrid Amplifier review
- Faith Blue Moon Venus review
- The Awards Issue 2021: inside the new issue of Total Guitar
- December 16
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- Eric Clapton successfully sues 55-year-old German widow for listing bootleg CD on eBay for $11
- From cinematic death metal epics to math-rock magic: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Wolfgang Van Halen discusses learning Paradise City to perform onstage with Guns N’ Roses
- The 10 best guitar solos of 2021
- Taylor Momsen: “While grieving, I was depriving myself of what I loved most. When I picked up a guitar and started writing, the floodgates opened up”
- Geezer Butler names 5 bass albums that shaped his style
- James Dean Bradfield shares the secrets behind his songwriting and guitar craft
- Give the gift of guitar lessons this Christmas with up to $100 off an ArtistWorks gift card
- Juketone Rival Son review
- Mr. Black unveils new-and-improved 8-stage Mini Phaser
- Jerry Cantrell recalls how Tom Morello inspired Layne Staley to step up his guitar playing
- Watch Paul Riario rev up the 'next-level' Dean MD24 Floyd Roasted Maple electric
- Richie Faulkner is back in the studio following his life-saving heart surgery
- And So I Watch You From Afar announce ambitious new multimedia album Jettison
- Rob Chapman confirms Dorje have disbanded
- December 15
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- Guitar pedals are a great holiday stocking stuffer – and these seven are some of the best on the market
- Harley Benton updates its practice amp line with HB-40MFX and HB-20MFX modeling amps, starting from $99
- Kickstarter launched for the Amonito, “the lightest all-in-one guitar amp ever created”
- Iced Earth‘s Jon Schaffer named in lawsuit by D.C. Attorney General seeking damages for Capitol riots
- The Modal Effects Disruption is a modular gain pedal with interchangeable blocks
- How to play like Gary Moore – the rock and fusion years
- Iron Maiden’s Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and Janick Gers share the guitar strategies behind their epic new album
- Bria reveal how a 1963 Epiphone Casino and their decade-long musical relationship led to their "accidental" debut EP
- Allman Family Revival tour dates postponed due to Covid
- Phil Chen, bassist and session pro with the likes of Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart and Brian May, dies aged 75
- Brandy Zdan: “To me, this ended up being a guitar record, because of the range of emotions in the instrument. It's a vehicle for my grief and anger”
- Epiphone pays tribute to the first-ever SG model with Burstbucker-equipped ‘61 Les Paul SG Standard
- How to play 5 classic Christmas songs on guitar – with tab and chords
- December 14
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- Watch former Steel Panther bassist Travis Haley – aka Lexxi Foxx – play his first show with new band, Hollywood Gods N' Monsters
- Hard-Ons’ Blackie and Tim Rogers: “it’s almost like ‘Hard-Ons Plus’ now”
- Watch Paul Riario get a big tone from Martin’s new 'crisp and loud' Grand J-16E 12-string acoustic
- High on Fire guitarist Matt Pike announces debut solo album, Pike vs. the Automaton, releases ultra-heavy lead single, Alien Slut Mum
- Gibson finally releases its first Dave Mustaine signature model, the Flying V EXP
- Kim Thayil on 30 years of Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger: “Right before we released the album, you could feel things were ready to explode”
- Mooer expands upgraded X2 pedal lineup with dual-channel digital Preamp Model X2
- How to get noticed by guitar brands on Instagram
- Zakk Wylde and Dario Lorina walk you through their favorite Black Label Society guitar riffs
- Verdine White: “Apart from the drums, the bass is the instrument you need to play the longest to become truly funky”
- Pond’s Jay Watson on the search for improv gold, the freedom to make weird noise and why lead guitar rules
- Man With a Mission's Jean-Ken Johnny: “I’m not really a technical guitar guy: it’s all about the emotion – how you descend your soul into the sound”
- Hear Lari Basilio let loose with some dazzling lead work on Ester Na’s new instrumental track, Free
- Joachim Cooder on how his kids helped inspire his new album reimagining the folk-blues of Uncle Dave Macon
- Paul McCartney’s bass and Eddie Vedder’s Telecaster break world records in Music Rising charity auction
- TC Electronic PolyTune 3 Mini review
- PJD Woodford Standard and St John Standard review
- December 13
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- Meet the compact, all-solid Taylor AD22e
- Watch guitar ace Nili Brosh crank it up with the new Blackstar Dept. 10 valve-loaded pedals
- Collision Devices debuts limited-edition reverb/delay/tremolo pedal, the Nocturnal
- Watch DJ Ashba perform Bella Ciao at the opening of the MMA Awards 2021
- Wes Borland's new Big Dumb Face album, Christmas in the Cave of Dagoth, might be the heaviest festive record of the year
- How Chuck Schuldiner pioneered the sound of death metal and became its spiritual guide
- Guitarist who relearned to play left-handed returns with ambidextrous playthrough using Michael Angelo Batio’s double-sided Sawtooth signature
- Maybeshewill: “On this record, we tried to lean less heavily on powerchords for the energy and find other ways to employ the guitars”
- Tony Iommi says “you can never say never” to Black Sabbath reunion
- Bill Kelliher reveals Ron Wood’s signature ESP as his secret studio weapon: “It’s the best-sounding Tele ever”
- Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp share unseen Sunday Lunch clips – and a new guitar jam
- Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen announce first US tour dates
- Austin Meade on tracking against the clock, nerding out with pedals, and why his PRS Mira is the best of both worlds
- Yngwie Malmsteen postpones US tour dates on “doctor's orders”
- Watch RJ Ronquillo conjure super-personalized tones with the OPFXS V-Uno Reprogrammable Guitar Pedal
- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 330
- Cesar Gueikian reveals Mesa/Boogie’s Randall Smith is working on a new range of Gibson amps
- What happened to Jimi Hendrix’s Stratocasters? Tracking down the guitars that made music history
- How to play the B chord on guitar
- Taylor Guitars TaylorSense Guitar Health Monitoring System review
- J Mascis and Kim Gordon team up for two-track single, Abstract Blues
- Red Witch announces the Nonpareil series, comprising 54 unique pedals
- December 10
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- H.E.R. teases collaboration with Dave Grohl: "I would love to work with him on an album or something"
- Michael Nesmith, Monkees guitarist, dies at 78
- Download and stream the audio from Total Guitar 353
- Crazy Tube Circuits debuts the Crossfire, inspired by “one of the most iconic pedal/amp combinations in history”
- Josh Smith shows how he blends classic blues with state-of-the-art tech in new, in-depth pedalboard breakdown
- Hear Wham!’s Last Christmas reimagined by Japanese experimental rockers Boris
- Metallica will stream their two upcoming 40th anniversary live shows for free
- Watch Wet Leg perform Chaise Longue on Late Night With Seth Meyers
- Jack White announces huge 2022 Supply Chain Issues world tour
- Australian prog-metal monsters Karnivool debut new single, All It Takes
- K.K. Downing: “I don’t want to discard my heritage, my legacy, who I am, what I sound like and my style of writing”
- Jerry Cantrell: “I'd plug into Eddie Van Halen's amp and sound like Jerry Cantrell. Eddie would play through my s**t and sound like EVH. It's in the hands. It's in your flesh”
- Behringer endeavors to emulate Mu-Tron's classic octave circuit with the faithfully spec’d Octave Divider
- Joel Crouse: "In a lot of ways, mental health is its own pandemic"
- Arch Enemy take death metal back to the '80s with galloping, lead-heavy new track, House of Mirrors
- Ashdown Pro-FX Vintage Fuzz review
- Adi Meyerson on taking inspiration from avant garde artist Yayoi Kusama and processing synesthesia through bass
- An Eddie Van Halen Funko Pop! figure is on the way
- Ed Sheeran donates prototype ‘= Edition’ acoustic guitar to hometown school raffle
- Watch guitar ace Sophie Burrell try out the "mega-impressive" NUX Mighty Air wireless stereo modeling amp
- Bass Player reveals 2021 Lifetime Achievement Awards
- December 9
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- Gibson pays tribute to Johnny Winter with new Custom Shop 1964 Firebird V model
- Watch Steve Stine demonstrate the tonal versatility of the Baldacci Bighorn
- Olivia Rodrigo caps off her year as one of 2021’s most-streamed guitar artists with five acoustic-strong “good 4 u” performance
- IK Multimedia teams up with Mesa/Boogie for new AmpliTube collection
- Watch Jeff Cole, an Indiana guitarist recovering from paralysis, tear through Wolftooth's Garden of Hesperides in this inspiring playthrough
- The Ohio venue where Dimebag Darrell was killed has been demolished
- Eric Gales lights a fire under the blues shuffle form on explosive new single, You Don't Know The Blues
- Harley Benton unveils Fusion-T HH HT line of twin-humbucker hardtail T-style electrics
- The story of Africa’s guitar god Dr. Nico, the Congolese innovator admired by Jimi Hendrix
- Aguilar SL112 Poseidon Green Special Edition review
- Robbie Shakespeare, bass player of influential reggae rhythm duo Sly and Robbie, dies aged 68
- December 8
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- Vulfpeck announce new album, Vulf Vault 005: Wong's Cafe, debut slinky lead single, Smokeshow
- G&L introduces fretless version of its Kiloton bass guitar
- Joyo unveils the ultra-compact, super-affordable Bantamp Meteor II lunchbox amp head
- Lollar announces new La Prima and B.S. J-Bass pickups
- Watch Mdou Moctar‘s stripped-down 30-minute Boiler Room session – complete with improvised solo
- Looking for the perfect guitar for the holidays? Guitar World’s holiday gift guide is here to help
- Watch Neil Young talk tubes, tone and working with amp “guru” Sal Trentino in this exclusive clip
- AngelMaker serve up rapid-fire alternate-picking lines aplenty in this destructive guitar-and-bass playthrough of Vengeance
- Creeping Death's Trey Pemberton: “It used to be, ‘Let’s write a bunch of riffs, throw ‘em together, and go hard.’ Now we think about how it flows together”
- DMC & The Hellraisers’ David Filice: “Amateurs learn something until they can play it right – professionals learn something ‘til they can’t play it wrong”
- Wolfgang Van Halen explains why his surname is a “blessing and a curse”
- Meet the local shredder who became the last guitarist to play the Walk solo on Dimebag Darrell's guitar, less than 24 hours before the Pantera legend's tragic death
- Watch Courtney Barnett perform If I Don’t Hear You Tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Vola teams up with Kaspar Jalily for signature semi-hollow, the KJM J1 Vasti
- The Edge: “Digital delay was a way for me to add coloration, dimension, additional rhythm and a certain machine-age quality”
- ABBA guitarist Janne Schaffer: “You can hear a lot of heavy rock guitars in the first and second albums. We’d been listening to Deep Purple”
- Robben Ford on why making an instrumental record was a good excuse to play a lot more music
- DACS Headline Guitar Switcher review
- Chibson USA launches official website, releases activity book inspired by its social media ad campaigns
- December 7
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- John Frusciante, Jack White, Emily Wolfe and Peter Frampton pay tribute to Electro-Harmonix founder Mike Matthews on his 80th birthday
- Wampler aims to blend high-gain sounds of the past and present with new Pantheon Deluxe dual overdrive pedal
- Watch Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age members jam on classic rock standards at all-star benefit concert
- Justin Bernasconi: “I could see swirls of paint strokes and hear dissonant phrases on the guitar”
- Megadeth's new album The Sick, the Dying and the Dead is “super-close” to being released, Dave Mustaine says
- Nashville Pussy's Ruyter Suys: “Simple is not my playing style. Most of the time, my erratic side gets the best of me”
- Alice Cooper joined by Ace Frehley and Orianthi at his 19th annual Christmas Pudding benefit concert
- St. Vincent had the Peavey Decade practice amp built into a pedal after Josh Homme revealed it as the secret behind the Queens of the Stone Age sound
- Nile Rodgers to sell over 100 guitars and basses in mammoth We Are Family Foundation charity auction
- Positive Grid's Spark amp is an ideal last-minute Christmas gift idea for guitar players - save up to $160 on bundles
- How to play guitar like Melanie Faye
- Watch Richie Faulkner shred on Instagram Live just 10 weeks after life-saving open-heart surgery
- Hamstead Soundworks Comet Interstellar Driver review
- Michael Kelly Pinnacle 5 review
- December 6
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- Looking to expand your playing and have more fun on guitar? Grab a Black Mountain Pick and unlock your creativity!
- Learn Randy Rhoads' warm-up exercises and more in this complete 1982 guitar clinic
- David Lee Roth claims the Frankenstein’s stripes were his design, but his story just doesn't add up – here's why
- Custom Shop Master Builder Carlos Lopez leaves Fender
- Jimmy Page pays tribute to Led Zeppelin tour manager Richard Cole: “He was a brother and a friend to the end”
- Keith Richards-played 1957 Gibson Les Paul Mickey Baker Deluxe, traded to Gram Parsons, goes under the hammer
- Tony Iommi: “One of my rock gods is Brian May… He's got a certain character that you didn't hear from anybody else”
- Meet Mojo Hand FX's Sericon, a highly tweakable Klon-style drive with three gain controls
- Prince William begins his week by listening to AC/DC's Thunderstruck
- Harley Benton steps up its multi-effects pedal game with the sleek, sub-$400 DNAfx GiT Pro
- George Lynch: “You can get fast using fuzz if you use it in the right way. Look at Eric Johnson – his main tone is a Fuzz Face!”
- Ashdown Pro-FX Retro Drive review
- Stuck on present ideas for Christmas? Laney’s comprehensive new 2021 holiday gift guide will provide you with the inspiration you need
- Megadeth launch their own cryptocurrency, $MEGA
- December 3
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- The Darkness's Justin Hawkins endorses Laney
- TASCAM is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an incredible giveaway featuring a TASCAM dream home studio and PRS S2 Custom guitar
- A Stevie Ray Vaughan stage-played Fender Elite Stratocaster, purchased by Mark Tremonti, goes up for auction
- Ozzy Osbourne rates his guitarists and reflects on the highs and lows of Black Sabbath
- Harmony celebrates a classic build with the $699 H72 Reissue
- Unprocessed reach for new genre-bending heights in latest single, Portrait
- Solar Guitars debuts signature model for Coroner guitarist Tommy Vetterli, the Type A1.6Coroner
- Paul Cochrane teases a third version of his legendary Tim overdrive
- “Make it sound as much like a car accident as you can”: Buzz Osborne is Gibson’s latest Riff Lords guest
- Why the P-90 pickup is making a comeback
- Charnett Moffett: “I try to get a lyrical, singing quality through the fretless bass. It’s a way of being in direct communication with people”
- Slash ft. Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators debut new song Fill My World
- Radiohead side-project The Smile debut new material – and pedalboards – in surprise rehearsal livestream
- Hear Tom Morello trade licks with Alex Lifeson and Kirk Hammett on new track I Have Seen the Way
- Get the holiday gear fires burning with the final installment of Guitar World’s Holiday Ultimate Gear Guide
- December 2
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- Glenn Tipton will play on the next Judas Priest album, Rob Halford confirms
- Kim Gordon blends dissonance and classic rock riffage on new single, Grass Jeans
- From bubblegrunge to Steve Vai's hollowbody dalliance: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Harley Benton unveils four new high-performance Fusion-III electric guitars
- Tech 21 SansAmp Bass Fly Rig V2 review
- Steve Vai swaps Ibanez for Gretsch in new single Little Pretty, and reveals bonkers triple-neck Hydra guitar
- Circa Survive: "It used to be difficult not to fill up every space with guitar – this record shows how our ability to restrain ourselves has grown"
- Watch Nancy Wilson, Jerry Cantrell and Sammy Hagar perform Alice In Chains' Brother and more in 10-minute jam session
- MXR crams Tom Morello’s iconic amp tones into a new signature pedal, the Power 50 Overdrive
- Eddie Vedder announces February 2022 US tour with backing band The Earthlings, featuring Andrew Watt, Josh Klinghoffer, Chris Chaney and Chad Smith
- Learn 5 ways to shred like Nuno Bettencourt with this lesson in Extreme guitar playing
- How to play the D chord on guitar
- Carlos Santana cancels Las Vegas residency following health scare and "unscheduled heart procedure"
- Joe Duplantier says Greta Van Fleet's latest album gave him “more faith in humanity”
- Zakk Wylde and Dario Lorina team up to teach you Black Label Society’s Set You Free in this exclusive Guitar World lesson
- Electro-Harmonix unveils the Nano Q-Tron, a downsized version of John Mayer’s favorite envelope filter
- December 1
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- Steel Panther are still searching for a new bassist – and they need your help to narrow the field of candidates
- Hear Drowning By Numbers, the new single from Japanese experimental supremos Boris
- Dave Pomeroy: “Banjo bass, string bass… I did one song with nine tracks of uke bass. There are a million different ways to play the bass”
- Fender 75th Anniversary Stratocaster and American Ultra Luxe Floyd Rose HSS Stratocaster review
- Ed Sheeran debuts limited-run '= Edition' Lowden signature model
- The Linda Lindas share rapid-fire power-punk effort, Nino
- Watch Peter Dinklage and the Dessner brothers perform Your Name from the Oscar-tipped Cyrano
- Meet Supro’s first ‘loud clean amp’, the Royale
- Craig "Goonzi" Gowans and Steven Jones deliver crushing riffs and soaring melodies in this monstrous playthrough of Bleed From Within's Night Crossing
- Zakk Wylde's career in 12 songs, Mastodon's masterpiece and Steve Howe – only in the new Guitar World
- Kim Thayil channeled the loss of Chris Cornell in his solo on the new Mastodon album
- Steve Vai announces new album, Inviolate, reveals tracklisting and release date
- Brody Dalle sentenced to 60 hours community service following contempt conviction
- Mark Tremonti on finding the right guitar, the economics of Dumble amps and the Goldtop that got away
- Guild Starfire I Bass review
- Ibanez officially unveils Yvette Young’s second signature guitar, the YY20
