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Electric guitars & amps · 106 stories, +50 vs last week

Electric guitars & amps: 106 stories in seven days, +50 on the week before.

GuitarsThe story of Gary Moore’s ’55 Les Paul Junior – a bargain buy from a Sex Pistol Guitar World

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DJ MagLive & DJNative Instruments announces Maschine 3.7 with new creative sequencing tools The music tech giant is also marking its 30th birthday by launching three more of its Expansions sound packs

Guitar WorldGuitarsThe story of Gary Moore’s ’55 Les Paul Junior – a bargain buy from a Sex Pistol Picture the scene if you will. It’s Christmas morning in 1950s America, snow is falling, Bing Crosby is crooning carols on the wireless, and a family is gathered around a tree with presents arranged…

BillboardIndustryJ-Hope Shouts Out ARMY After BTS Score 3 New VMA Wins: ‘It’s All Thanks to You Guys’ BTS might not have been in the room when the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards handed out their Moon Person trophies on Sunday night, but j-hope made sure ARMY knew he was celebrating the wins.

KVR Audio NewsDAW & pluginsGazillion Industries releases WINNETKA - Polysynth and vocoder, for macOS and Windows Gazillion Industries has released WINNETKA . WINNETKA is a polysynth with a vocoder, and the second instrument from Gazillion Industries.

MusicRadarGearGuitar hero George Lynch on the highs and lows of his extraordinary career George Lynch is one of the most acclaimed and influential rock guitarists to have emerged in the ’80s. He could have been Ozzy Osbourne’s right hand man.

Magnetic MagazineLive & DJSkycabin Makes Desire Feel Like Displacement Skycabin’s COVET starts from desire, although the word gets darker once Farbod Khoshtinat and Sepand Bahrami start pulling it apart.

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PollstarIndustryUniversity Athletic Programs Adapt To Change In Real Time Dan Griffis, Jason Michael Ford, Gavin Gough and Erin O’Connell discuss the state of college sports venues.

Magnetic MagazineLive & DJShake With The Sound Keeps “Lifted” Simple Shake With The Sound’s “Lifted” knows exactly what kind of record it wants to be. It is not trying to be complicated, moody, or dressed up as something heavier than it is.

FOH OnlineLive & DJKling & Freitag Opens U.S. Distribution Facility Hannover, Germany-based pro audio loudspeaker manufacturer Kling & Freitag has established a distribution in the USA located in Hamptonville, North Carolina

Music ConnectionIndustryMegadeth Rocks The Grammy Museum On a warm Thursday night, right in the middle of Downtown Los Angeles amidst tall buildings, honking horns, and a thin layer of grey smog, Megadeth visited The Grammy Museum’s Ray Charles Terrace for…

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

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