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MXR M75 Super Badass Distortion now shipping Designed by the award-winning MXR Custom Badass team, the Super Badass Distortion puts decades of 100% analog distortion at your feet. With a completely new circuit design and specially-tuned EQ section, the Super Badass delivers unparalleled versatility for players who want a more personalized distortion sound. Its highly responsive Distortion ‹ more ›

MXR M75 Super Badass Distortion now shipping

Designed by the award-winning MXR Custom Badass team, the Super Badass Distortion puts decades of 100% analog distortion at your feet. With a completely new circuit design and specially-tuned EQ section, the Super Badass delivers unparalleled versatility for players who want a more personalized distortion sound. Its highly responsive Distortion
‹ more ›

Frank Zappa's "Freak Out!" remastered
Paul Gilbert/ArtistWorks guitar giveaway
Cort announces limited edition Stephen

Frank Zappa's "Freak Out!" remastered

Paul Gilbert/ArtistWorks guitar giveaway

Cort announces limited edition Stephen

Jerry Cantrell talks 'Devils & Dinosaurs' There was a time, let’s call it the early ’90s, when it seemed like all you needed was a guitar and a Seattle Zip Code and your band could get signed, your tunes could get on the radio, your records could sell in the millions, and you could tour the world and elsewhere. Of course, it wasn’t quite that simple. Northwest bands of that era—Nirvana, ‹ more ›

Elliot Easton Turns on the Twang
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Spotlight Then & Now: Rich Lasner

Under Investigation: The Soulful Guitarists of James Brown Old-School funk —(from left) Sylvester Keels, Nash Knox, Fred Pulliam, James Brown (on drums), Nafloyd Scott, Bobby Byrd (on piano), and Roy Scott of the funk band James Brown & the Original Flames pose for a portrait in 1956. BACK WHEN FUNK WAS CALLED “SOUL MUSIC,” JAMES BROWN AND HIS various groups ruled the roost. These ‹ more ›

Rhythm Workshop: Sixteenth-Note Funk
Kiko Loureiro on Cross-Picked and
Hey Jazz Guy: Playing Multiple Lines

Roundup: Six High-Value 6-Strings THE LOGICAL STEP FOR MOST PLAYERS WHEN THEY COME INTO some cash is to start buying more expensive guitars. Sure, putting it into gold or some other commodity might make more financial sense in the long run, but what’s the fun in that when so many fine electric and acoustic guitars are beckoning you to add them to your collection? In most cases ‹ more ›

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Free Download! Tedeschi Trucks Band's "Part of Me"

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Fender releases Satin Series Strats and Teles

Fender is excited to announce a brand new series release for this upcoming summer season. Dubbed as the Satin Series, it comes as a fresh and warm addition to an already potent Fender line-up.

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Test Drive: Blackstar ID:260TVP

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Watch: Tim Sparks Performs a Solo Guitar Version of Igor Stravinsky's "Dance Russe" from Petrushka

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