Fender's experimental branch introduced some sandblasted Hybrid II instruments earlier this year – but they've been trumped ...

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Powerflo, The Halo Effect and Raging Speedhorn are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

Fit the guitar top to ensure you can easily align the book-matched seam with the centerlines on each end of the body. If necessary, sand both ends of the top to make it easier to align.

Songs from his 2024 “Luck and Strange LP” mesh seamlessly with older material, thanks in no small part to a stellar band that ...

Snowden, who has sold thousands of these guitars worldwide, including to artists such as Ozzy Osbourne, transitioned from playing bass guitar in ... Center through the end of October.

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In 2007 it was acquired by NewBay Media in New York, where it joined a portfolio of magazines that included Bass Player, Electronic Musician, Keyboard, Mix and Guitar ... at the end of September ...

Palo Alto resident Rob Levitsky has been a fan of the Grateful Dead since October 1976, when he saw them with The Who at the Oakland Coliseum. The Grateful Dead pioneered louder sound systems using ...

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Ivy broke out in the early 2000s with "Edge of the Ocean." As their album “Long Distance” makes its vinyl debut, the surviving members reflect on its creation.