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Electric guitars & amps · 103 stories, +62 vs last week

Electric guitars & amps: 103 stories in seven days, +62 on the week before.

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DJ MagLive & DJDaMetalMessiah announces FABRICLIVE. compilation featuring Novelist, Manga Saint Hilaire, Tailor Jae, more The LP is a portrait of grime in 2026, featuring "handpicked producers" and a spread of era-spanning MCs

October 18

DJ MagLive & DJThe Avalanches - No Bad Memories Music Reviews A L B U M S Release date: 16 October 2026 | Kristan J Caryl The Avalanches No Bad Memories Modular Recordings Corporate dream-pop

October 18

DJ MagLive & DJListen to Mia Koden’s new Ilian Tape EP, ‘Decode Vol.2’ The UK DJ and producer's second EP for the Munich-based label

October 18

Premier GuitarGuitarsTonewood Teardown: Polishing the Frets Hello, and welcome back to Mod Garage. We are almost done with our Harley Benton project—after working on the neck last month, there’s only one final step left before the neck is completely finished…

October 18

Guitar WorldGuitarsHow Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett’s $100 million royalty lawsuit ended with a $3 million legal bill What would reggae be without Bob Marley, and what would Marley’s music be without Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett’s rock-solid basslines ?

October 18

StereogumIndustryBob Dylan Kicks Off Tour With Live Debuts, Rarities, And Yet Another New Guitarist Last night (Oct. 17) in Oslo, Bob Dylan kicked off the Lights Of Autumn tour. At Oslo Spektrum, Dylan performed a 19-track set, playing the electric keyboard the entire night, with live debuts…

October 18

No TrebleGuitarsU2 Announces First Stadium Tour Since 2019, Shares New Single U2 returns to stadiums in 2027 with The Greatest Show on Earth tour. See the first dates with Beck and hear Adam Clayton on the band's newly released single.

October 18

Guitar PlayerGuitarsAdd jazz flair to your 12-bar blues with this time-tested shortcut from GIT master tutor Les Wise Jazz guitarist and revered tutor Les Wise was one of the first instructors at the iconic L.A. music school GIT (Guitar Institute of Technology), launched back in 1977 by Howard Roberts and Pat Hicks.

October 18

CDM — Create Digital MusicGearAbed Eyad is making beats in Gaza: interview, call for support 20-year-old Palestinian producer Abed Eyad is making beats from the rubble, surviving amidst genocide.

October 18

Guitar WorldGuitars“My dad could do things on a guitar neck that most people couldn’t, just because of the physical size of his hands”: What set Chuck Berry’s playing apart, according to his son Chuck Berry’s son has looked back on what made his father such a singular talent on the guitar – and it was all down to, er, the size of his hands.

October 18

Guitar PlayerGuitarsVince Gill tells how a tragedy brought him his prized 1959 Gibson Les Paul ’Burst Over the course of his long career, Vince Gill has been a session artist, a member of Pure Prairie League, a solo giant and, today, a member of the Eagles .

October 18

Guitar WorldGuitars“One pickup, two knobs – what more do you need? Well, some of us need a front pickup, too!” Joe Bonamassa compares Les Paul Juniors and demonstrates how they change his playing I’d like to address the fact that not all Les Paul Juniors are created equal. Specifically, I’m talking about the three different variants of the guitar model that were offered by Gibson between the…

October 18