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- December 23
- December 20
- December 19
- December 18
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- Access a library of iconic amp tones with Hughes & Kettner's new Black Spirit 200 combo
- DiMarzio unmasks the Jim Root ClipLock Quick Release Guitar Strap
- Status Quo frontman Francis Rossi’s green Tele fetches more than $150,000 at auction
- This video of kids playing with pedals for the first time is the most adorable guitar moment of the year
- Enter to win this massive winter gear giveaway!
- NAMM 2020: Mooer expands its multi-effects line-up with the nicely priced GE250
- Watch Joe Bonamassa and Johnny Depp jam Alice Cooper classics with the shock-rocker's original line-up
- Ancient Roman death metal has arrived with this gladiatorial guitar playthrough
- December 17
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- Tony Iommi calls out YouTuber for getting his tone wrong
- JackSavior’s new guitar cable promises to “save the world from jack failure”
- Crazy Tubes Circuits offers up tweed-like drive and vibrato tones with the new Killer V
- Save up to 80% off top-rated Bluetooth and wireless headphones in Sennheiser’s seasonal sale
- Cole Music's ParaDrive "will make your current overdrive seem like a dullard"
- John D’Addario III to become new CEO of The D’Addario Company
- December 16
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- NAMM 2020: ESP keeps the LTD party going with new SN, Xtone, M and 200 Series guitars
- Not only is John Frusciante back, but his favorite wah pedal is, too
- Strandberg goes for gold - and silver - with striking 10th anniversary models
- Marshall delivers the venom with the new white-snakeskin-wrapped 1959HW Bernie Marsden signature amp
- John Frusciante rejoins Red Hot Chili Peppers
- December 13
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- NAMM 2020: Fryette delivers with new Deliverance Series II amps
- Submit your questions for Adam 'Nergal' Darski
- Keeley Electronics hits the sweet spot with new Johnny Hiland Super Drive Overdrive
- Solar Guitars unveils four sleek and highly affordable seven-strings
- Stone Sour's Josh Rand on how he changed from bass to guitar by accident and what's next for the band
- December 12
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- Origin Effects reissues hugely popular Cali76 studio-grade compressor
- This hilarious yet informative lesson is like no guitar playthrough you've ever seen before
- Joe Satriani AmpliTube is coming - and you get to pick the modeled gear
- TC Electronic goes big on features with the new Flashback 2 Mini Delay and Hall of Fame 2 Mini Reverb
- Joyo packs distortion, overdrive, delay and more into the TC-1 Tone Chain
- The 20 best guitar riffs of the decade
- December 11
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- Go from warm acoustic tones to wall-shaking hard-rock growl in a heartbeat with Relish's new Walnut Mary guitar
- Paul Gilbert's Great Guitar Escape: Shrapnel and Beyond is a four-day workshop shred-fest
- Fender continues its Rarities hot streak with the Flame Maple Top Stratocaster HSS Thinline
- Gibson launches the Murphy Lab, dedicated to building historically accurate guitars
- Watch Myles Kennedy perform Hallelujah on Jeff Buckley’s famous ’83 Telecaster
- December 10
- December 9
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- Manuel Gardner Fernandes: "I wanted to do something people might not have heard before - and I hope I’ve proved I can play everything live"
- Kemper finally releases its computer-based editor - meet the Rig Manager 3.0
- Rings of Saturn’s Lucas Mann responds to allegations he “mimed” guitar parts onstage
- The best-selling pedals of 2019 have been revealed
- Faith Guitars introduces the HiGloss Lyra, a nylon-string “designed with the non-classical player in mind”
- Ozzy Osbourne offers $25,000 reward for information about stolen Randy Rhoads guitar gear
- Ernie Ball promotes Luke Noffke to Director of Global Marketing and E-Commerce
- December 7
- December 6
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- Enter now: the Chordify Premium Suite Giveaway
- Catalinbread’s Dirty Little Secret overdrive pedal just got a little bit dirtier
- Man tapes dustpan to face, plays Smoke on the Water using nothing but sweep argpeggios
- The Underground Thieves' Nick Perri on ignoring directives from Eddie Van Halen, and why he's more satisfied with his tone than ever before
- Mojotone cooks up vintage Gibson-style sounds with the new Premium Historic Limited ’59 P.A.F. Humbucker Set
- Kyser to release limited-edition 40th anniversary capo
- Avenged Sevenfold’s Synyster Gates offers up two new limited-edition autographed Schecter signature guitars
- December 5
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- Lyndsey Parker and Mindi Abair announced as co-hosts for the 2020 She Rocks Awards
- Framus gives the D-Series Idolmaker a Burgundy Blackburst makeover
- The best-selling guitar amps of 2019 revealed
- Epiphone's new Tommy Thayer Electric Blue Les Paul looks hotter than hell
- Boss debuts its most powerful guitar synth ever, the SY-1000
- Boss crams an entire amp into a set of headphones with the game-changing Waza-Air
- December 4
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- Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gary Rossington shares the story behind Free Bird
- Watch Eric Clapton jam with space-rock vets Hawkwind onstage in the UK
- The Jack White and Tenacious D collaboration is finally here
- Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins: "I used to study classical and jazz... then I was suddenly sleeping on floors and playing punk-rock"
- The Allman Betts Band: "This is really about our chapter, and we’re still writing it"
- December 3
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- Pedal Crush will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about stompbox effects
- Mad Professor’s Super Black pedal puts classic Blackface tone in a box
- Faith Guitars brews up smooth tones and impressive looks with the new ‘Dark Roast’ Earth acoustic
- Beck: I used a $60 particle board guitar to record most of my albums
- Mithans’ Kyoto Explode guitar puts a whole new spin on the 'burst finish
- Manuel Gardner Fernandes responds to Instagram fakery accusations: “There was never a video that was sped up”
- December 2
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- These are the best Epiphone Les Paul Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals
- Take your amp modeler to the next level with $100 off a Line 6 Powercab
- D'Addario's XT strings are its most advanced yet
- SOLD OUT: This is the cheapest Ibanez AZ deal we’ve ever seen: just $899 for one of the best electric guitars you can buy
- These are the best Cyber Monday acoustic guitar deals so far
- Save $100 on Boss's very best effects pedals, the almighty 500 series - for a limited time only
- There are MASSIVE discounts on Boss's awesome-sounding Nextone guitar amps right now - but stock is running low
- Learn legato, tapping and string skipping with Micky Crystal
- December 1
