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Sammy Hagar is touring the UK for the first time since 1996 – and bringing Joe Satriani and Van Halen’s Michael Anthony with him

Hagar will bring his Best of All Worlds tour – a celebration of his five-decade career and musical legacy – across the pond in 2026

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“All the same comfort and playability as their American counterparts”: Rabea Massaad’s Sterling by Music Man Sabre has been one of the firm’s most anticipated builds – and now it’s finally here

A year and a half after the highly refined $4,000 Ernie Ball Music Man model arrived, a sub-$1k version has landed

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“Brent’s got an entire album that hasn’t seen the light of day”: Brent Hinds had a trove of solo material that was never released, according to his former bandmate

Duane Trucks of Fiend Without a Face has shed light on some unheard material that the Mastodon guitarist created before his tragic death

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“The director said, ‘I’m looking for a young, hip rock ‘n’ roll band like Greta Van Fleet.’ And the producer’s like, ‘Well, I know someone…’” How Greta Van Fleet ended up in the new Bruce Springsteen biopic

You may spot two Kiszka brothers alongside Jeremy Allen White in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

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“ESP asked me to pyrograph James Hetfield’s Explorer. I wasn’t sure who James was, but I said yes”: Meet Dino Muradian, the pyrographer who makes a living burning artwork into stars’ guitars

Defecting from his home country by flying himself over the border, the Romanian pilot wound up making guitar art for Metallica, B.B. King and the ESP Custom Shop

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“His reaction went from polite puzzlement, to resistance, to anger. He finished up with, ‘I think it's a dumb idea’”: When Anthony Jackson came up with the idea for a six-string bass, he struggled to find anyone to build it

Along with Leo Fender, the late Anthony Jackson became one of the most important figures in the history of the electric bass

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“The more I got to know him, the more I could tell he was interested in different sounds, from Indian classical to Middle Eastern”: Nicolas Meier was hand-picked by Jeff Beck. Now he’s honoring the late guitar icon with a sound that seeks new horizons

Meier on what he learned from Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía, and how in Jeff Beck he found a kindred spirit for guitar sounds with no limits

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“Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook knows a thing or two about using inventive and interesting chord voicings”: How you can swap the notes in a chord to give it a different feel

A lesson in second inversions sounds like advanced physics but it's simply swapping the root note for the 5th, expanding your chord vocabulary with a minimum of fuss

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“All-solid body construction and premium electronics for under $350? You have my attention”: Harley Benton CLC-650SM-CE review

Harley Benton is once again pushing the boundaries of what 'bang for your buck' actually means

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“I knew I couldn’t take a ‘56 Junior and butcher the nut to put on the super fat strings that I would need for these low tunings”: Why Three Days Grace’s Barry Stock is embracing the Ibanez Iceman – and picking his trusty Quad Cortex over a 7-string

Alienation finds Three Days Grace reinvented as a quintet, and exploring the destructive power of super-low tunings. Onstage, meanwhile, Stock has been having fun with a Porsche GT Silver-themed Ibanez...

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“A distinctive tone beyond limits”: After Jack White, Donner has collaborated on 2 signature pedals with another big-name player

Japanese virtuoso MIYAVI now has a pair of signature Donner stompboxes, which cover reverb, delay, fuzz and more

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“My only regret is that I don’t get to play them all as often as I would like”: U2’s Adam Clayton is auctioning off a score of bass guitars that have shaped the band’s sound over the years

U2’s Adam Clayton is auctioning off a score of bass guitars that have shaped the band’s sound over the years

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“A new way to keep your favorite picks organized, visible and easy to reach”: Has D’Addario solved the missing guitar pick conundrum?

The Pick Holder 360 is a simple but effective invention for those who can never find a pick when they need one

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“Eddie Van Halen said, ‘How do you guys do that with three guitars? I have a hard enough time with just myself!’” A salute to Freddie Salem, the guitar ace who delivered licks for Barbra Streisand, and Southern rock fire and brimstone with the Outlaws

The late guitarist went from hard-rock hijinks to a well-respected session career, and had skills and stories – a smoke with Johnny Depp in full Jack Sparrow dress, a 9 a.m. whiskey with Keith Richards – aplenty, but always remained humble and easy-going

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“This isn’t ‘inspired by’ it. It’s built on the same ingredient that forged it”: Korn pioneered the very sound of nu metal with their debut album – now those tones have been put in a pedal

The Indigo Sludge Preamp + Fuzz offers the band's iconic early tone in a stompbox

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“I fought tooth and nail for it not to be on the record, but Ed was like, ’If it’s not, I’m leaving’”: Thom Yorke reflects on the viral Radiohead smash that nearly broke up the band

The song has been doing the rounds on social media ahead of Radiohead’s upcoming reunion tour – but it almost didn’t see the light of day

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“That bassline was the first thing that came out of my head. By the end of the soundcheck we had the whole song down”: Limp Bizkit remain one of the biggest nu-metal bands ever – but they wouldn't have taken those giant strides without bassist Sam Rivers

Limp Bizkit may be known for their planet-sized guitar riffs, but behind every monster moshpit there's a talented bassist

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“The standard-bearer against which to judge all small combo amps”: Fender Blues Junior IV 30th Anniversary review

Decked out in tooled western-style livery with a saddle bag’s worth of speaker and circuit upgrades, this anniversary edition stands strong in the lineage of the classic benchmark combo

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“An unspecified buyer dipped into their pocket for $2,857,500 – so fara record for any guitar previously owned by a Beatle”: The story of the Framus Hootenanny, the resurrected John Lennon favorite that was a key component of Beatles tone

Loved by the Animals, the Stones, and most famously John Lennon, what was it about this Framus 12-string that made it a staple of ’60s rock tone?

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“Offers musical feel that responds like a great amp”: Orange’s animalistic King Comp looks to level up your compression game

With low floor noise and high headroom, the British firm promises transparency and sustain enhancement aplenty

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“This guitar has changed my playing on stage so much”: Ibanez has dropped a stunning seven-string signature for metal shredder Hazuki – but it’s a Japan exclusive

The well-equipped axe is one of the best-looking Ibanez signatures in years, but its limited availability is tragic news

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From the shred heroics of Joe Satriani to the melodic mastery of George Benson and fascinating phrasing of Yvette Young, we chart 25 game-changing Ibanez guitarists

While it’s easy to think of Ibanez as a company that’s solely at the cutting edge of metal machines for the modern age, they’ve also innovated much further afield, producing timeless acoustics, semi-hollows, and hollowbodies

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“It took nearly 20 years for the Hello Kitty Strat to return, and now it’s raining cats and… er, more cats”: All the guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including two replicas of the Marty McFly ES-345 that inspired a generation to play guitar

It's been quality over quantity this week, with a few blockbuster drops

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“So Dave, how do I slash the amp?”: Dave Davies shows you the proper way to slash an amp to achieve his Kinks tone

The guitarist gives a firsthand showing of how to achieve the band’s landmark distortion without the use of pedals

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“Someone once told me I had vibrato like Eric Clapton. I thought, ‘Well, if you’re gonna give me a compliment, you can definitely say that!’” Lindsay Ell on feel, failure and finding her voice – and what jams with Keith Urban and Buddy Guy taught her

Shania Twain's touring guitar ace opens up about her Buddy Guy baptism by fire and the raw questions that shaped her new EP, fence sitter. And she tells us that John Mayer is reassuringly human

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