Rosengarten Mannheim became a scorching-hot cauldron of all things guitar for three days – and there were plenty of highlights ...

There are gear demos and then there are gear demos in which a guitar legend performs the most radical amp mod to show us how he got the guitar tone on You Really Got Me ...

Suicide Silence’s riff beast Chris Garza may be the proud owner of the world’s first official seven-string Fender Strat, but he says getting the firm’s Custom Shop to commit to the build was a massive ...

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson came to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in October 2025 to preview their 2026 reunion tour.

Clay Melton remembers the exact moment he wanted to play the guitar. He was 10 and in his father’s truck driving around the northwest side of Houston. His father played Jimi Hendrix’s take on “All ...

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 ...

Since before I was born, my mother had a radio in every room of the house I grew up in. It was only natural that music would become the first love of my life. I was memorizing song lyrics before I ...

The next generation of the Swedish firm's headless guitar design has arrived; is this the guitar to finally convince the cynics to try one out?

TALES FROM NERDVILLE by Joe Bonamassa TOOLS OF THE TRADE, PART 4 For the last few columns, Joe Bonamassa has been demoing a variety of his favorite vintage guitars and discussing each instrument’s ...

Noah Scott was sitting in the Raleigh-Durham airport eating a Subway sandwich after a cancelled flight when the call came in. On the other end of the line was Larry Hall, chief curator of the Jim ...