Once the preserve of the custom shop and boutique, the German budget gear company brings us vintage mojo on the cheap – and ...

For as far back as we are able to look into the prehistory of the human race, music has been a crucial part of the life of humans. Some scholars even speculate that human music may have come before ...

Incendiary sounds shooting like fireworks off the strings of an electric guitar have defined pop music around the world for 70 years. Credit Adolph Rickenbacker (1887-1976) for this world-wide wonder ...

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How is it that in a book as rich in description, as full of imagist sound-summonings, spot-on human characterizations, and erotic paeans to the bodies of guitars as Ian S. Port’s The Birth of Loud, ...

Phillip McKnight’s love affair with Stratocaster guitars started at age 15 when he got a counterfeit version of the Fender icon—and an amp—for $120. Today, the former guitar shop owner’s prized ...

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You’ve decided to pick up an axe and learn to shred like one of the pros. While mastering the guitar is no easy feat itself, before you even start jamming you’ll probably find yourself looking through ...

As a young guitarist, buying your very first guitar is a huge moment. The sheer amount of possibilities for budding musicians makes learning the guitar an exciting prospect – and even a potential ...

Modular electric guitars are the future of the iconic instrument We're coming up on the 100th anniversary of the electric guitar, and it's been fascinating to hear how this simple instrument has ...